[CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

Tue Nov 28 08:16:48 UTC 2017
Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>

Sorin,

Indeed, CentOS 6 is not longer officially supported by Chrome. It hasn't been for a few years, though there are workarounds[1].

It's high time people migrated to EL7.

[1] - http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/chrome-deps-stable-3.11-1.x86_64.rpm

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 November, 2017 07:47:35
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of H
>> Sent: den 27 november 2017 19:45
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6
>> 
>> >> 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.
>> 
>> Ah, good, so this would be using the google-chrome.repo? I was not
> familiar
>> with it.
> 
> Wasn't the latest Google Chrome unsupported on CentOS 6 because of some
> dependency problems or some such?
> 
> 
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