How to Install Google Chrome 83 On Rhel 7 / Centos 7 And Dependency Resolution – 2021 Updated
This is an updated tutorial to install Google Chrome on Rhel 7 /Centos. Many of us facing dependencies issues in installing Google Chrome.
Google Chrome is a web browser from Google Chrome available free to use. Chrome is the most popular browser now.
In This Tutorial We Will learn:
- How to install Google Chrome in RHEL7 /CENTOS 7
- Resolve dependencies like glibc-common, etc
- resolve the issue of ” –skip-broken to work around the problem”, “rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest”
- Create a local repo with packages
Our Environment :
RHEL 7.7 but this can work any version of RHEL / CENTOS 7. Rhel 7 yum repository configured.
1- Configure Google Chrome Repository
Create a file name googlechrome.repo in yum.repos.d directory. by the following command :
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/googlechrome.repo
Do below line entry in the file and save it by :wq!
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
Now we have 2 Repository
We will face issue of dependencies if we install google chrome from yum. So we will create a new repo with dependencies.
2- Configure dependencies Repository :
- Create a directory extrarepo
# mkdir /extrarepo
- Download below packages from https://pkgs.org/ or RedHat Package download page if you have a subscription. We have made simple for you , you can download from the below link also.
Chrome Dependency Package tar file use 7zip on windows or tar -xzvf filename in Linux to extract
glibc-2.30-alt1.x86_64.rpm
glibc-core-2.30-alt1.x86_64.rpm
libwayland-client-1.15.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
libX11-1.6.7-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
libX11-common-1.6.7-2.el7.noarch.rpm
libXau-1.0.8-2.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
libxcb-1.13-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
libXext-1.3.3-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
vulkan-1.1.97.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
vulkan-devel-1.1.97.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
vulkan-filesystem-1.1.97.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm
- Use any tool, like WinSCP , Filezilla or you can directly download using utility wget to server. Here we have used WinSCP.
- Install createrepo and run command createrepo /extrarepo . This will create repodata for packages.
# yum install -y createrepo
# createrepo /extrarepo/
# createrepo /extrarepo/
- Now create another file in /etc/yum,repos.d/Requiredpkg.repo
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/Requiredpkg.repo
- Do below lines in file and save from :wq!
[Required-Pkg]
name=Google Chrome required Pkg
baseurl=file:///extrarepo
enable=1
gpgcheck=0
Now we have 3 repositories and we are ready to install google chrome.
3- Install google chrome :
# yum install google-chrome-stable -y
This will install google chrome without any error
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Check google chrome version by below command :
# google-chrome –version
Start google chrome by command :
# google-chrome &
Now at this point you have installed google chrome. Let us know if you face any issues. You can Dm also on our Insta page or use #explinux to ask questions.
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