Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Installing chrome web browser on fedora 12


I will show 2 ways to install chrome on fedora 12

1st way

1. download rpm file from here. Choose the rpm file according to your OS architecture and click "Accept and Install"

2. Wait until the download finish, then install the rpm file
# rpm -Uvh google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm

3. By installing this rpm, a yum repository file will also be created in /etc/yum.repos.d with the name google-chrome.repo
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Done.


2nd way

1. Create a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d with the name chromium.repo
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

2. Copy and paste settings below into the newly created file
[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

3. Save and quit vi

4. Install chromium
# yum install chromium

Done.

Note that by using the 2nd way, you will get later version of chrome compared to the 1st way


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