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I heard that it should be not that hard to install Google Chrome and the latest Firefox on RHEL 5.4. (the OS our company support is only up to RHEL 5.4). It probably requires some make install and will uses the C compiler.

Can somebody give a definite and tested answer? (instead of some webpage that might not work or dated back to 2007).

Please also mention any required packages (probably yum packages) and how to install them.

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Did you try the rpm from http://google.com/chrome? – jordanm Jan 17 at 4:07
yes, and I tried downloading all 4 of those packages and nothing happens after the download. (using Firefox 3) – 動靜能量 Jan 17 at 4:33
What do you mean "nothing happens"? Did you install the package and try running google-chrome? – jordanm Jan 17 at 4:57
The question is, how do you "install" the package? I am a newbie in RHEL / Fedora – 動靜能量 Jan 17 at 7:37

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Use Google's Chrome Yum repository.

Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo with the following contents:

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

Now you can install google-chrome-stable, or if you feel like taking some risks, you can install google-chrome-beta or google-chrome-unstable.

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If you have downloaded that package, run rpm -ivh package_name.rpm. Or click System/Administration/AddRemove Software, use the GUI tool to search 'chrome' package.

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