Monday, October 5, 2009

open source chrome on fedora 11

Google has its open source version of its Chrome browser, currently under heavy development. The open source version is called Chromium.

Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, the Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser.

To install chromium, create a chromium.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
Commands:
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

Then fill it up with this:-

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

After that, just yum install chromium
Root Shell commands:
[root@yourpc ~]# yum install chromium
User Shell commands:
[workspace@yourpc ~]$ su -c 'yum install chromium'