Install Google Chrome on RHEL6.X

In this tutorial we will show you how we have practically installed Google Chrome 29 browser in one of our CentOS 6.4 server using Google’s own repository with Yum tool. By using repository you will keep your Chrome browser up-to-date. However, it should also work on RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.0, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.0 and Fedora 19,18,17,16,15 versions as well.

Step 1: Enable Google YUM repository
Create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo and add the following lines of code to it.

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

 

Step 2: Installing Chrome Web Browser
Download and Install Chrome Web Browser with yum command. It will automatically install all dependencies.

# yum install google-chrome-stable

 

Update : Sadly, the Google Chrome browser no longer supports the most famous commercial distribution Red Hat and its free clones such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.

Yes, they’ve discontinued support for RHEL 6.X version as of Google Chrome and on other side, latest Firefox and Opera browsers run successfully on the same platforms.

Luckily, there is a script developed by Richard Lloyd, that automatically download and install latest Google Chrome browser by picking libraries from a more recent released distro and put those libraries in (/opt/google/chrome/lib) directory and then you can able to run Google Chrome on CentOS 6.X version.

http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/

 

Step 3: To Use Google Chrome on RHEL 6, Perform Following :-

Click on Applications -> Internet -> Click on Google Chrome

Howto: Installing Google Chrome on RHEL 6 for x86 and x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6