How to Install Google Chrome in RedHat-Based Linux Distros

Ravi SaiveDecember 22, 2022December 22, 2022 Web Browsers 363 Comments

Google Chrome is a most popular, fast, secure, and easy-to-use free cross-platform web browser developed by Google, and was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, later versions were released to Linux, macOS, iOS, and also for Android.

Most of Chrome’s source code is taken from Google’s open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware, which means you can download and use it for free, but you cannot decompile, reverse engineer, or use the source code to build other programs or projects.

As of November 2022, Google’s Chrome is the most used internet web browser in the world with a global market share of 65.86 percent. In other words, more than six in ten people use Google Chrome to browse the internet.

Recently, Google Chrome officially rolled out Chrome 108 version for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The actual version is 108.0.5359.124 and comes with a number of exciting fixes, features, and improvements.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the Google Chrome web browser in RedHat-Based Linux Distros like CentOS, Fedora, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux using Google’s own repository with the yum package manager tool.

Important: Google Chrome support for all 32-bit Linux distributions are deprecated since March 2016.

Table of Contents

How to Install Google Chrome on Linux

We will use Google’s Linux software packages, which are signed with GPG keys that will automatically configure the package manager repository to install and update the Chrome browser whenever a new Chrome update is released.

Step 1: Install Google YUM Repository

First, create a new file called /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo.

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

and add the following lines of code to it.

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

To save a file in vi, hit the ESC key to switch to command mode, press : (colon) to open the prompt bar, and type x after the colon and hit enter to save the changes.

Step 2: Install Google Chrome Browser on Linux

First, check whether the latest version is available from Google’s own repository using the following yum command.

# yum info google-chrome-stable

Output – Check Google Chrome Package Info

Available Packages
Name         : google-chrome-stable
Version      : 108.0.5359.124
Release      : 1
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 92 M
Source       : google-chrome-stable-108.0.5359.124-1.src.rpm
Repository   : google-chrome
Summary      : Google Chrome
URL          : https://chrome.google.com/
License      : Multiple, see https://chrome.google.com/
Description  : Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design 
with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Do you see the highlighted output above, which clearly told that the latest version of chrome is available from the repository. So, let’s install it using the yum command as shown below, which will automatically install all the needed dependencies.

# yum install google-chrome-stable

Output – Installing Google Chrome

Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                             
  Installing       : liberation-fonts-1:2.1.3-4.el9.noarch       
  Running scriptlet: google-chrome-stable-108.0.5359.124-1.x86_64
  Installing       : google-chrome-stable-108.0.5359.124-1.x86_64
  Running scriptlet: google-chrome-stable-108.0.5359.124-1.x86_64
  Verifying        : liberation-fonts-1:2.1.3-4.el9.noarch       
  Verifying        : google-chrome-stable-108.0.5359.124-1.x86_64

Installed:
liberation-fonts-1:2.1.3-4.el9.noarch                                                     
google-chrome-stable-108.0.5359.124-1.x86_64                                                      

Complete!

Update: Sadly, the Google Chrome browser no longer supports the most famous commercial distribution RHEL 6.x, and its free clones such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.

Yes, they’ve discontinued support for the RHEL 6.X version of Google Chrome, and on the other side, the latest Firefox and Opera browsers run successfully on the same platforms.

The next step for RHEL/CentOS 6 users is to move to recent releases of RHEL/CentOS or Rocky Linux/AlmaLinux, the latest Google Chrome works out of the box on these releases.

Step 3: Running Google Chrome on Linux

Start the Chrome browser with a non-root user from the command line or start it from System Menu.

# google-chrome &

Welcome screen of Chrome web browser.

Browsing www.tecmint.com on Chrome web browser.

Running Chrome Browser in Linux — Running Chrome Browser on Linux

That’s it, enjoy browsing with Chrome, and do let me know your browsing experience with Chrome via comments.

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Hey Google chrome not working in centos 7:

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package (+11 Dependent packages)

Total size: 55 M
Total download size: 926 k
Installed size: 195 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: yes
Downloading packages:


Error downloading packages:
  redhat-lsb-core-4.1-27.el7.centos.1.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libappindicator-gtk3-12.10.0-13.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  1:liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.2-16.el7.noarch: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libdbusmenu-gtk3-16.04.0-4.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libindicator-gtk3-12.10.1-6.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libdbusmenu-16.04.0-4.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  patch-2.7.1-8.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-6.1.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  spax-1.5.2-13.el7.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  redhat-lsb-submod-security-4.1-27.el7.centos.1.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  1:liberation-fonts-1.07.2-16.el7.noarch: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Ravi Saive

January 21, 2019 at 1:29 pm
@Shashank,

Please enable the needed repositories correctly to install these dependency packages as shown.
```
$ sudo yum clean all 
$ sudo rm -r /var/cache/yum 
$ sudo yum update 
$ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable
```
Also please install EPEL release.
```
$ sudo yum install epel-release
```
Reply

Cheung Wai Lam

October 12, 2018 at 12:18 pm
Question:

My team in China have applied this Chrome version 69 to physical PC. The Chrome is able to be installed and open in this physical PC.

However, this Chrome is able to be installed into a mini PC but can’t be open with the following message display:

/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor

This mini PC is configured with the following:
- OS: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
- Processor: Pentium CPU J2900 @2.41GHz x 4
- OS Type: 64 位
- Graphic: Intel Bay Trail
- GNOME: version 3.8.4
- RAM: 3.6 GB
- Storage: 28.3 GB
Please see if there is anyone who may help to fix this problem? Thanks
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  October 12, 2018 at 12:48 pm
  @Cheung,
  
  Try updating the system from the base repositories and it will fix this chrome error.
```
# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base,updates update
```
  and then reboot into 7.4 once it completes.
  Reply
raj

September 27, 2018 at 11:42 pm

Hello Sir / Madam

Please help me to how to install VLC Player in RHEL7 OS
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  September 28, 2018 at 10:31 am
  
  @Raj,
  
  Please follow this article to Install VLC in RHEL 7.0.
  Reply
Abdul

August 28, 2018 at 12:57 am
Hi, can anyone please help me with the following error. I am trying to run Chrome 68 on RHEL 7.2.
```
google-chrome --headless http://www.google.com

[0827/152542.289445:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(1016)] Lost UI shared context.
shared memfd open() failed: Invalid argument
```
Reply
- chinmay
  
  September 14, 2018 at 11:46 pm
  
  I think it is -headless instead of --headless.
  Reply
anji

August 16, 2018 at 10:43 am

I am facing following error while running the Google Chrome.

/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: gtk_style_context_set_scale
Reply
Võ Quang Tuấn

August 7, 2018 at 11:00 pm

I installed Google Chrome to my CentOS VPS successfully, but when I run (via putty), it returns error: [1274:1274:0807/172204.994442:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without –no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

So, Pls help me to fix this error. Thank you.
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  August 8, 2018 at 10:38 am
  
  @Khai,
  
  Please don’t run Google chrome as root, try to run as normal system user…
  Reply
  - Khai
    
    August 10, 2018 at 10:23 pm
    
    Dear Ravi Saive,
    
    Thank you for your response, but I still cannot start Google chrome when I remote to my VPS via Putty, Bitvise SSH. It returns error: “(google-chrome:2704): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display“.
    
    So, can I run Google chrome when I remote to VPS via Putty or Bitwise SSH?
    
    Thanks,
    Khai
    Reply
    - Ravi Saive
      
      August 13, 2018 at 10:50 am
      
      @Khai,
      
      That’s not possible bro, how can you run a Google chrome from a Putty without any GUI? Google chrome needs 1GB RAM with GUI support to run it..
      Reply
    - Niall
      
      January 8, 2019 at 9:53 pm
      
      HI I am experiencing the exact same issue and im using non-root user. Did you get a fix for this? I tried X11forwarding: yes but and checked yum install for xauth and other suggested packages but they are all there. Running out of ideas with this.
      Reply
  - chinmay
    
    September 14, 2018 at 11:47 pm
    
    add --no-sandbox option if running on root.
    Reply
phil

July 29, 2018 at 4:14 pm

Great post. Works like a charm! Up to date as welll
Reply
Tesfa

July 26, 2018 at 12:18 pm

After installation when i tried to share it asks me to download and install chrome remote dektop host installer but unable to install it.
Reply
Dragos Alexe

July 2, 2018 at 12:18 pm

Ravi , could you update the article to use GPG key from local file rather than allowing yum to retrieve the key from an external source?? It would be very helpful for me!!!
Thanks!!!!!!
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  July 2, 2018 at 1:18 pm
  @Dragos,
  
  If you don’t want to retrieve GPG key from external sources online, you can create your own GPG key using tools. Else you can download and install it locally as shown.
```
# wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
```
  Reply
  - Dragos Alexe
    
    July 2, 2018 at 1:41 pm
    
    Thanks Ravi!!! Best for you!!
    Reply
jd

March 28, 2018 at 7:18 am

I tried the steps you list to install chrome on fedora20-x86_74

Did Not Work.

fc20 needs an older release of chrome :(

To wit:

# yum install google-chrome-stable
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00:00
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:21.0.1180.89-154005 will be updated
—> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:65.0.3325.181-1 will be an update
–> Processing Dependency: libssl3.so(NSS_3.28)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable-65.0.3325.181-1.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libnss3.so(NSS_3.22)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable-65.0.3325.181-1.x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-65.0.3325.181-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)
Requires: libssl3.so(NSS_3.28)(64bit)
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-65.0.3325.181-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)
Requires: libnss3.so(NSS_3.22)(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  March 28, 2018 at 1:20 pm
  
  @Jd,
  
  Fedora 20? its too old, upgrade to Fedora 27 (latest release) to install Chrome browser..
  Reply