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How to Install Google Chrome 40 in CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and

Fedora 21/20
Written by Rahul

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Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. It was released as a beta
version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December
11, 2008. is latest stable version available for Linux users.
This article will help you to install Google chrome on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and Fedora 21/20.

Improvements in This Release

A new clock behind/ahead error message.
Updated info dialog for Chrome app on Windows and Linux.
Various security fixes
Be careful before installing it, The script recommended to upgrade system to latest version to work
Google chrome properly

Install or Update Google Chrome on Linux

Richard Lloid provided an shell script to grab libraries from a more recent Linux distro, put them
in a tree (/opt/google/chrome/lib) exclusively picked up by Google Chrome and then you can indeed
run Google Chrome on CentOS 6.5 or later. Read More
# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
# chmod +x install_chrome.sh
# sh install_chrome.sh

If you are using older version of Linux distribution, This script will prompt you for confirmation to
upgrade system. As per Richard Lloid we need to upgrade system by typing to work properly.

Launch Google Chrome

Use following command to start Google Chrome from non root account.
$ google-chrome

or start process in background

$ google-chrome &

Uninstall Google Chrome

If you have used above shell script to install Google chrome. Then you can use use following
command to uninstall Google Chrome and its dependencies added by this script.
# sh install_chrome.sh -u

Know Error

Facing below error while starting Google chrome.

# google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: /usr/lib/libnss3.so: version `NSS_3.14.3 not found (required by
/usr/bin/google-chrome)
Solution - Update nss package to latest version
# yum update nss