[CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6
Richard
lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net
Mon Nov 27 19:09:34 UTC 2017
> Date: Monday, November 27, 2017 19:45:28 +0100
> From: H <agents at meddatainc.com>
>
> On 11/25/2017 10:52 PM, Richard wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Saturday, November 25, 2017 18:55:18 +0100
>>> From: H <agents at meddatainc.com>
>>>
>>> I have chromium installed on CentOS 7 and it works fine, I now
>>> need to install it on a CentOS 6 workstation. However, it is not
>>> available in EPEL as it is for C 7. From what I understand, this
>>> is because it is already available in a supplementary channel from
>>> RHEL for C 6.
>>>
>>> Is this the recommended method for installing it on C 6?
>>>
>>> https://www.tecmint.com/install-google-chrome-on-redhat-centos-fe
>>> do ra-linux/
>>>
>> Just curious - why are you using the epel, rather than google,
>> release for centos-7?
>>
>> The current google repo releases, (which install without any issues
>> and work well on centos-7) are:
>>
>> stable.x86_64 62.0.3202.94-1
>> beta.x86_64 63.0.3239.59-1
>>
>> while the epel one is:
>>
>> 61.0.3163.100-1
>>
>> which was the "google stable" release in late september, and is
>> about five releases back.
>
> Ah, good, so this would be using the google-chrome.repo? I was not
> familiar with it.
>
Yes, from the google chrome repository, using google-chrome.repo. The
Centos wiki page at:
<https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/GoogleYumRepos>
has the details if you need them. This works for -7, not -6.
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