Install Chrome Web Browser on CentOS 6

Introduction Google stopped support for their Chrome web browser on RHEL 6.x. Fortunately, there is a workaround of sorts in place vi...

Introduction

Google stopped support for their Chrome web browser on RHEL 6.x. Fortunately, there is a workaround of sorts in place via a script created by a gentleman named Richard Lloyd.

The following steps instruct on how to make use of Mr. Lloyd's script and successfully install Google Chrome Web browser on CentOS 6.

Steps (3 total)

1

Open a terminal and download the install_chrome.sh script

# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh

2

Change permissions on the downloaded script and run it

# chmod u+x install_chrome.sh && ./install_chrome.sh

3

Launch the browser

# google-chrome &

Conclusion

That's it! You should now have a fully functioning Chrome web browser on your CentOS 6 Desktop. It can be launched from the terminal as demonstrated above, or you should be able to browse to it via the Applications menu.

If you want to install the beta version of the browser, or fuss about with the other options available in Mr. Llloyd's script take a look at his site as referenced below.

References

• Tecmint - Google Chrome 41 Released – Install on RHEL/CentOS 7/6 and Fedora 21-15
• Richard Lloyd - How to install Google Chrome 28+ on RHEL/CentOS 6