[CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

Mon Nov 27 18:45:28 UTC 2017
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-fedo
>> 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.
>
>
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Ah, good, so this would be using the google-chrome.repo? I was not familiar with it.