Sunday, June 30, 2013

Centos 6.4 and Google Chrome 28 update

Centos seeems not to support the new updates from Google Chrome. The Problem is libstdc++.so.6 which isn't available on centos 6.

There are some options for this issue:

Just keep running the old version until centos 7 is ready and disable update issue:

go to /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo set enabled=0 will disable it and stop the failures.

Install Chromium Browser (with Pepper Flash plugin and Chrome PDF viewer plugin) on CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6.

1.Change root user 

2. Install/enable hughesjr Chromium EL 6 repository
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/chromium-el6.repo

3. Install Chromium Browser on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
yum install chromium

4. Install Pepper Flash Player on Chromium Note: this is optional step and you will need 200-250 Mb temporary disk space.
4.1 Get hughesjr Helper Script
cd /tmp wget https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh
4.2 Make chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh Executable
chmod +x chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh
4.3 Install Pepper Flash on Chromium
./chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh
This will take a while, it downloads Google Chrome and extracts Pepper Flash plugin to /opt/chromium and modify Chromium launcher.

5. Install Google Chrome PDF Viewer Plugin on Chromium Note: this is optional step and you will need 200-250 Mb temporary disk space.
5.1 Get hughesjr Helper Script
cd /tmp
wget https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_copy.sh
5.2 Make chrome_libpdf_copy.sh Executable
chmod +x chrome_libpdf_copy.sh
5.3 Install Google Chrome PDF Viewer Plugin on Chromium ./chrome_libpdf_copy.sh  

3 comments:

  1. Another option - download and run the script I wrote from here:

    http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/

    It downloads/installs the latest Google Chrome (28 at the moment) and also downloads/extracts some libraries from Fedora 15 RPMs. google-chrome command now works for me with Chrome 28 on a 64-bit CentOS 6.4 system.

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  2. I ran this script and it appeared to work without issues. However, videos no longer play in the updated Chrome. I get audio, but no picture. My guess is a flash issue. Anyone have any suggestions how to resolve this?

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