For what it's worth, we decided on a chromium based browser on SL7, but not Chrome or Chromium itself. We are using Vivaldi, which does have working rpms on SL7, except for one thing - it doesn't support "proprietary media codecs". So far this isn't much of an issue. -- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University ________________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of ~Stack~ <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2021 12:30 PM To: Stephen Isard; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: google-chrome On 10/23/21 11:11 AM, Götz Waschk wrote: > Am 22.10.21 um 16:40 schrieb Stephen Isard: >> 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 >> > Hi Stephen, > > I have seen this. The solution was rpm -e google-chrome-stable . You > could try to run Google Chrome in an EL8 singularity container, e.g. > based on CentOS8, AlmaLinux8 or Rocky Linux 8. I'm going to second Götz. Officially Chrome isn't supported on RH. They say Fedora 24+... https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.google.com_chrome_answer_95346-3Fhl-3Den&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=dgMSM-KkpmXdR-TaFWz2pQPbuaFF5Ip3DaeYI-W9P-WL7T8PxtNz6HqLNf6hhX9Y&s=jH9qcs4D1gLr98CA7sw5fP8cWMTF0UDYVnGBq_BBxkI&e= We /MUCH/ prefer Firefox but we ran into an issue where we needed it on a SL7 system for a specific workload but it seemed like it broke every other update. It was a pain trying to manage Chrome. We finally just started using containers for Chrome until the end of the project and then we went back to Firefox for everything. I too recommend Singularity for containerization, but there are other containers out there if you look. ~Stack~