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Re: Installing Chrome
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"Teh, Kenneth M." <[log in to unmask]>
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Teh, Kenneth M.
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Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:06:43 +0000
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I have google-chrome running on my SL7x systems without any issues. Download the 

rpm from



> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dl.google.com_linux_direct_google-2Dchrome-2Dstable-5Fcurrent-5Fx86-5F64.rpm&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=6oFnap0OxMsKmGkMnPN_cuFIAHLGt9UHSU3b5qO7T2U&s=gL00sqbIQuwlSzfbRmaeMccpQZjYYBjhcYWD9uUHlE0&e=



and install it. It even installs google-chrome.repo so it is kept up-to-date if 

you have yum-autoupdate turned on.







On 3/18/19 2:55 PM, Boris Goldowsky wrote:

> Good idea - I'll try using Chromium instead as the first experiment.

> 

> Boris

> 

> 

> 

> On 3/18/19, 1:10 PM, "[log in to unmask] on behalf of Mark Stodola" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 

>      On 3/18/19 11:22 AM, Boris Goldowsky wrote:

>      > Trying to get Google Chrome installed on Scientific Linux 7.3, in order to be able to run Selenium/WebDriver tests.

>      >

>      > Attempting to install via RPM or Yum, it is unable to find the dependency "liberation-fonts"

>      >

>      >      Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-73.0.3683.75-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)

>      >                 Requires: liberation-fonts

>      >

>      > I do have the following installed, which are all that are available in the SL repositories:

>      >        Installed Packages

>      >        liberation-fonts-common.noarch  1:1.07.2-15.el7 @base/$releasever

>      >        liberation-mono-fonts.noarch    1:1.07.2-15.el7 @base/$releasever

>      >        liberation-narrow-fonts.noarch  1:1.07.2-15.el7 @sl

>      >        liberation-sans-fonts.noarch    1:1.07.2-15.el7 @base/$releasever

>      >        liberation-serif-fonts.noarch   1:1.07.2-15.el7 @base/$releasever

>      >

>      > But the (meta-)package “libreration-fonts” doesn’t seem to exist in SL.

>      >

>      > Any advice?  Thank you!

>      >

>      > Boris

>      

>      You could install with rpm --nodeps if you really need Google Chrome.

>      

>      I would recommend Chromium from the EPEL repository first though.

>      

>      -Mark

>      

>

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