Install Google Chrome on CentOS / RHEL 5

Install Google Chrome on CentOS / RHEL 5


Here is what you need to do :

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

If you are running a 32-bit version of CentOS, add the following to the open file:

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

If you are running a 64-bit version of CentOS, add the following to the open file:

[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Then simply install Google Chrome via YUM:

#yum install google-chrome-stable

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1. Download the Source package
You can downlaod the source package for Google chrome(Chromium) from the following link.

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cxs548/chrome.tar.gz

2. Download libXcomposite rpm Package and Install

You can download libXcomposite from the link.

#wget ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/libXcomposite-0.3-5.1.i386.rpm

Note: For other versions of CentOS and RHEL refer the following link.
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5/

  Install the libXcomposite file

#rpm -ivh libXcomposite-0.3-5.1.i386.rpm

3. Extract Chrome Package and Run
Now copy the chrome package to /opt and extract it.

#tar -zxvf chrome.tar.gz

Now just execute the following command to run Google Chrome

#./opt/chrome/chrome-wrapper

or
Create a custom launcher in desktop pointing to the above mentioned script

Right click on desktop> Create launcher> Application> Command> Browse> /opt/chrome/chrome-wrapper> OK