Install Google Chrome in Linux (Fedora)

Google has its open source version of its Chrome browser, currently under heavy development. The open source version is called Chromium.

Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, the Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser.

follow the steps

1.create

etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

with content as

[chromium]

name=Chromium Test Packages

baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

2. after this go to console

[root@localhost ~]# yum install chromium

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

* fedora: mirror.oscc.org.my

* rpmfusion-free: mirror.transact.net.au

* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.transact.net.au

* rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.transact.net.au

* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.transact.net.au

* updates: ftp.riken.jp

chromium                                                 | 1.2 kB     00:00

chromium/primary                                         | 2.4 kB     00:00

chromium                                                                    7/7

Setting up Install Process

Resolving Dependencies

–> Running transaction check

—> Package chromium.i586 0:3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11 set to be updated

–> Processing Dependency: libv8.so.0 for package: chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586

–> Running transaction check

—> Package v8.i586 0:1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11 set to be updated

–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================

Package     Arch    Version                                  Repository   Size

================================================================================

Installing:

chromium    i586    3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11      chromium     11 M

Installing for dependencies:

v8          i586    1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11             chromium    858 k

Transaction Summary

================================================================================

Install      2 Package(s)

Update       0 Package(s)

Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 12 M

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Downloading Packages:

Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata

Processing delta metadata

Package(s) data still to download: 12 M

(1/2): chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586 |  11 MB     01:11

(2/2): v8-1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11.i586.rpm          | 858 kB     00:06

——————————————————————————–

Total                                           149 kB/s |  12 MB     01:19

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Test Succeeded

Running Transaction

Installing     : v8-1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11.i586                     1/2

Installing     : chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586        2/2

Installed:

chromium.i586 0:3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11

Dependency Installed:

v8.i586 0:1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11

Complete!