Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora, Red Hat (RHEL)

Posted: July 7, 2010 in How To
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This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 12, Fedora 13 and Red Hat 6 (RHEL). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository.

Enable Google YUM repository

Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file:

32-bit

[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

64-bit

[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
Note: Both 32-bit and 64-bit repos can be placed in the same file.

Install Google Chrome with YUM (as root user)

## Install Google Chrome Stable version
yum install google-chrome-stable

## OR install Google Chrome Beta version##
yum install google-chrome-beta

## OR install Google Chrome Unstable version##
yum install google-chrome-unstable

now you are done with installing google chrome successfully!

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