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Stephen Isard <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen Isard <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 24 Oct 2021 11:12:28 -0500
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 13:19:52 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 12:55 PM Stephen Isard
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:54:19 -0500, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> >On 10/22/21 9:40 AM, Stephen Isard wrote:
>> >> For the past couple of days, I've been getting
>> >>
>> >> ------------------
>> >> /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron:
>> >>
>> >> Failed to check for updates with the following error message:
>> >> Failed to build transaction: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64
>> >> requires libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit)
>> >> ------------------
>> >>
>> >> Disabling the google-chrome repo makes the error message go away, of course,
>> >> and lets check-update proceed.  But is this the end of the road for chrome
>> >> updates on SL7, or is there some reasonably straightforward work-around?
>> >>
>> >> Stephen Isard
>> >
>> >For the record, I'm a Firefox user...  I honestly don't see why some
>> >people are so tied up on chrome.
>> >There is a chromium package available that works fine and uses the same
>> >rendering engine.
>> >You could also look into a snap or appimage packaging.
>> >Historically, google doesn't give a flip about supporting "old" anything.
>>
>> I mostly use firefox, but there are sites where it doesn't display properly and chrome does.  (Maybe the converse is also true, but I wouldn't know because I only turn to chrome when firefox doesn't work.)  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.septa.org_schedules_rail_&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=i8lPkBMuEDK6cUEBTT5-REXMT8OK9fEHBGk__l0HSbnoQbkHHMRG1Ks2lzAzVJpb&s=OLOXT5NGr6IAORcdHsRPRPXfkr_gAd9_nSa5VFLmPBw&e=  is an example of a site that firefox messes up for me.
>
>So use "chromium", rather than the leading edge and unlikely to be
>stable google-chrome builds.

Thanks!  I hadn't been aware that there was a chromium rpm.  I think it solves my problem.

Stephen Isard

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