Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.2, Even on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3

 

Our intention is not to copy paste the entire content from another website most of the times, hence only the link to external website is provided here. Please note, if you follow the instructions properly, installing Google Chrome is a matter just few minutes.

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-google-chrome-with-yum-on-fedora-red-hat-rhel/

To create google.repo do the following

as root

$cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

$touch google.repo

$gedit google.repo (or use vi/vim)

for 32-bit, add following block

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 32-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

for 64-bit, add following block (you may add both blocks to google.repo)

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

 

Save google.repo file

$yum install google-chrome-stable (Current release is 20.x) and the total download is around 41Mb) on installation it will consume a total of 120Mb on your HDD

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