[CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

Mon Nov 27 19:09:34 UTC 2017
Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net>


> 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.