Install Google Chrome on CentOS5 & RHEL5

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its V8 JavaScript engine, as an open source project entitled Chromium. This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and to help port the browser to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.Chromium implements a similar feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates, built-in PDF reader and Google branding, and most noticeably has a blue-colored logo in place of the multicolored Google logo.

As you know there is no official build for RHEL or CentOS of Google Chrome, we have some alternative methods to install Google Chrome on RHEL and CentOS.

Here are the steps to install Google Chrome for RHEL5 /CentOS5.


1. Download the Source package
You can downlaod the source package for Google chrome(Chromium) from the following link.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cxs548/chrome.tar.gz

2. Download libXcomposite rpm Package and Install
You can download libXcomposite from the link.
 ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/libXcomposite-0.3-5.1.i386.rpm

Note: For other versions of CentOS and RHEL refer the following link.
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5/

Install the libXcomposite file

#rpm -ivh libXcomposite-0.3-5.1.i386.rpm

3.Extract Chrome Package and Run
Now copy the chrome package to /opt and extract it.

#tar -zxvf chrome.tar.gz

Now just execute the following command to run Google Chrome

#/opt/chrome/chrome-wrapper

or
Create a custom launcher in desktop pointing to the above mentioned script
Right click on desktop> Create launcher> Application> Command> Browse> /opt/chrome/chrome-wrapper> OK

Thats all done...

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