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== Chromium web browser ==
Fedora does not include Chromium web browser in the official repository due to problems outlined in  
Fedora does not include Chromium web browser in the official repository due to problems outlined in  


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Use PackageKit or run the following command as root user
Use PackageKit or run the following command as root user


<pre> yum install chromium </pre>
<pre>yum install chromium</pre>
 
==  Google Chrome ==


Fedora does not include Google Chrome because is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin however Google does maintain a yum repository at  
Fedora does not include Google Chrome because is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin however Google does maintain a yum repository at  


http://www.google.com/chrome/
http://www.google.com/chrome/

Revision as of 20:57, 20 May 2010

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 maintains his own packages of Chromium at

http://fedorapeople.org/~spot/chromium/

To use this repo, create a chromium.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d as root user with the following content


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

Use PackageKit or run the following command as root user

yum install chromium

Google Chrome

Fedora does not include Google Chrome because is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin however Google does maintain a yum repository at

http://www.google.com/chrome/