How to install Chrome browser on Fedora linux, that works!

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fedora-chromiumChrome is a browser revolution from Google. It’s built from scratch by Google and has all new features and some innovative ones. Although Google has not yet officially released a Chrome browser that works on Linux, we had shared with you a few ways in which you could possibly install Chromium (the base on which Google have built the Chrome browser) on your Linux system.

Except the Crossover Chromium, all other installs and builds of Chromium on Fedora 11 or Fedora 10 have been buggy till date. But, now we have a very decent solution for Chromium on Fedora and we will tell you how to go about installing a working build of Chrome (Chromium) on Fedora 11 and Fedora 10.

Google Chrome for Linux is now available officially. Click here to find out how to install it.

Installation of Chromium browser can be done in both ways – either manually or using the YUM updater. These packages have been specially built for Fedora 11 and are available for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems.

Install Using Packages (RPMs)

RPMs of the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of both Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 operating systems are available at http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/. Download and install them by either double clicking the RPMs or by using the rpm -ivh <package-name> command. If you are looking for source RPMs, these can also be found at the link above.

Install Using YUM

One advantage of installing Chromium via YUM is that you will get updates to Chromium automatically. Also there won’t be any dependency problem while installing. All you need to do is just download the file: chromium.repo and save it to your /etc/yum.repos.d directory. Once done, then you can install Chromium by using the command: yum -y install chromium

Special note for 64bit version users

There have been many issues with the 64 bit version of the Chrome Browser. Please read this guide in order to successfully set up Google’s Chrome Browser of Fedora Linux.

Chromium running on Fedora 11

Chromium can be launched from Applications > Internet > Chromium Web Browser. You can also alunch it from the terminal using the command chromium-browser. Since this install is a development build, some advanced functionality such as Support for Plugins(including Flash Plugin), Printing and support for Google Gears will not be available until it’s next release. Google Chrome supports plugins and greasemonkey scripts by default but you have to enable them before using a script and plugin. Here is a quick tip on adding and removing search engines in Chrome.


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  • remke
    And for making flash work:
    http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/27/how-to-enable-...

    Grz
    Remke
  • chuck
    I'll repeat "x86_64 user" -- this version of Chromium Browser does NOT work with x86_64. The really weird thing is, I had it working before (on 64bit), but when I did a clean rebuild of my F11 64bit system, Chromium quit working. Gives me an "Error 0 (net::OK): Unknown error."

    I suspect that it is trying to find a 32bit library that I don't have installed. Unfortunately, it must not have its dependencies set up correctly to pull in the right 32bit libraries. If it did, then it would run in 32bit mode on top of the 64bit OS.

    I'm trying the src package to see if I can make that work.
  • Hey chuck, If you succeed in running the chrome build for 64 bit, then do let me know. I have been scratching my head over this for weeks!
  • Hi pals,
    I have succeeded in running Chromium under Fedora 11 64 bits. But that's all, it just runs. I can not open any external webpage. However, I can access web pages via their IP address (localhost, inside my local network, external). So, it seems to be a problem with... names resolution?

    Any idea will be great! Best wishes

    PS. Great article, the YUM method worked like a charm
  • kbeaumont
    I have the same issue, put in an ip address it works, but I get either the above error or sometimes I get Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): The server could not be found.

    It is noticeably faster. I also personally do not like the bookmarks interface. Well back to firefox now. It might be 1/2 second slower but at least it works.
  • You should install nss-mdns.i586, then chromium can open the web page on Fedora 11 x86_64.

    I think that I will send an e-mail to spot and suggest that he should add nss-mdns.i586.

    Now chromium works so well in my Fedora 11 x86_64.
  • chuck
    AH!! That's what I suspected. I actually had it working on a previous install of F11/x64, but when I re-did the install from scratch, Chrome quit working. I suspected that I'd had a copy of some i586 version of the library which I had missed this time around.

    I'd still only give it a "partially working" label with this. The dependencies are definitely broken, and this is NOT a real 64bit version, but at least for now it seems to be functional.

    (Now we'll just see if that library foobars the rest of the system. One reason why I wiped the previous install was that something was broken so that most of my OTHER programs couldn't resolve DNS names, EXCEPT for chrome. I'm wondering if this library was the culprit..... :-/)
  • x86_64 user
    There are NO 64bit versions!!!
  • Good job! useful tips! I'v submitted a link of this article to www.linuxine.com in order to share it with more people.
  • dpb
    You're wrong, Google HAS officially released Chrome for linux that works. There's a .deb package released at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-ch...

    It's just meant for developers and not recommended for users, but it does work.
  • Hey dpb, the packages for linux available on the developer zone of Chromium support only Debian / Ubuntu systems. In the article above we have explained how to get Chrome on Fedora Linux. Please note the difference. Anyways, thank you for pointing me out. So have you tried the beta version of Chrome for Linux? How does it work for you?
  • There is a dev build for Fedora 10 and 11 also..
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