How to Install Google Chrome on CentOS

Introduction

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google and released in September, 2008. It is the main component of Chrome OS. Originally, it was developed for Microsoft Windows and later ported to Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android. Google releases its source code under the Chromium open source project. In this tutorial, we will install Google Chrome on CentOS.

Prerequisites

CentOS
Login as root user on terminal
Yum must be configured on the system.

Installation

Installation includes following steps.

1) Update the local repository index of Yum

Use the following command to update the local repository index of Yum installer.

2) Add the Google Yum Repository

Create a file named as google-chrome.repo inside /etc/yum.repos.d/ and add the following lines of code to this.

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dlssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

3) Install Google Chrome

Use the following command to install Google Chrome on CentOS.