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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 for Fedora at | Since Chromium is upstream for Google Chrome, all the same issues apply. In addition to that, 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 for Fedora at | ||
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Revision as of 06:14, 3 June 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, 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 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/F$releasever/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Use PackageKit or run the following command as root user
yum install chromium
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 is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin however Google does maintain a yum repository for Fedora at