from:http://tecadmin.net/install-google-chrome-in-centos-rhel-and-fedora/
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It is released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, + as a stable public release on December 1 1, 2008. Google Chrome latest stable version available to download.
Google Chrome Released: This article'll help you install Google Chrome on CentOS & RHEL 6 and Fedora 19/18.
Changes and improvements in this Release
- Rich Notifications Improvements
- An Updated incognito/guest NTP design
- The addition of a Browser crash recovery bubble
- Chrome App Launcher for Linux
- Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
Be careful before installing it, the script recommended to upgrade system to latest version to work Google Chrome properly Step 1:install/update Google Chrome
Richard lloid provided a shell script to grab libraries from a more recent Linux distro, put them in a tree (/op T/google/chrome/lib) exclusively picked up by Google Chrome and then you can indeed run Google Chrome on CentOS 6.5 or LAT Er. Read more
# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh# chmod +x install_chrome.sh# sh install_chrome.sh
If you is using older version of Linux distribution, this script would prompt you for confirmation to upgrade system. As per Richard lloid we need to upgrade system by typing Yes to work properly.
Step 2:launch Google Chrome
Use following command-to-start Google Chrome from the non root account.
$ google-chrome
Or START process in background
$ google-chrome &
Step 3:uninstall Google Chrome
If you had used above shell script to install Google Chrome. Then you can use the following command to uninstall Google Chrome and its dependencies added by this script.
# sh Install_chrome.sh-u
Know Error
Error 1: Facing below error while starting Google Chrome.
# Google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome:/usr/lib/libnss3.so:version ' nss_3.14.3′not found (required by/usr/bin/google-chrome)
Solution- Update NSS package to latest version
# Yum Update NSS
References:
http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/
Reproduced How to Install Google Chrome Centos/rhel 6 and Fedora 19/18