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http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/ | http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/ | ||
To use this repo, | To use this repo, download the repo file from from http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-chromium-stable.repo and drop it in /etc/yum.repos.d as root user or run the following command | ||
<pre>sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-chromium-stable.repo</pre> | |||
<pre>yum install chromium</pre> | Use PackageKit or run the following command | ||
<pre>sudo yum install chromium -y</pre> | |||
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http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/ | http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/ | ||
To use this repo, | To use this repo, download the repo file from http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/fedora-chromium.repo and drop it in /etc/yum.repos.d as root user or run the following command | ||
<pre>sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/fedora-chromium.repo</pre> | |||
Use PackageKit or run the following command | Use PackageKit or run the following command | ||
<pre>yum install chromium</pre> | <pre>sudo yum install chromium -y</pre> | ||
== Google Chrome == | == Google Chrome == | ||
Revision as of 00:03, 16 July 2013
Chromium web browser
Fedora does not include Chromium web browser in the official repository due to problems outlined in
http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-why-chromium-isnt-in-fedora
Tom 'spot' Callaway, Manager of the Fedora Engineering team at Red Hat is working with Google to fix the problems in Chromium so that it can be made available in the official repository. He also maintains his own test packages of Chromium
Stable repository
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/
To use this repo, download the repo file from from http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-chromium-stable.repo and drop it in /etc/yum.repos.d as root user or run the following command
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-chromium-stable.repo
Use PackageKit or run the following command
sudo yum install chromium -y
Unstable repository
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/
To use this repo, download the repo file from http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/fedora-chromium.repo and drop it in /etc/yum.repos.d as root user or run the following command
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-unstable/fedora-chromium.repo
Use PackageKit or run the following command
sudo yum install chromium -y
Google Chrome
Since Chromium is upstream for Google Chrome, all the same issues apply. In addition to that, Fedora does not include Google Chrome because it is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin. However, Google does maintain a yum repository for Fedora at