How to install Google Chrome on CentOS 6.3

How to install Google Chrome on CentOS 6.3

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install Google Chrome on CentOS 6.3. This also applied for CentOS 6.2 as well. By installing Google Chrome via YUM repository, we can get future update easily.  First, we need to add Google Chrome repository to CentOS 6.3.

Edit or create new file on /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo. You can do this by invoking this command as root

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

Now paste the following lines

for 32bit system:

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 32-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

For 64 bit CentOS 6.3

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Now install Google Chrome using command

yum install google-chrome-stable