How to install Google Chrome in Fedora

install Google Chrome in Fedora 10 or Fedora 11

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.

To install chromium, create a chromium.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

Then fill it up with this:-

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

After that, just yum install chromium

[root@atreides ~]# 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

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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!

Chromium for Fedora !!! Here’s a screenshot of Chromium running on my machine: