Google Chrome is one of the most famous and widely used browsers of all time. With its sleek and modern design and a fast and secure experience, it is a top choice when it comes to browsers. In this article, we will take a look at how to install Google Chrome on RHEL-based distros. This is a very popular family of Linux distros based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, examples of other such distros are the community-driven, Fedora, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, and more.
Method 1: Using the RPM package
RPM stands for RPM Package Manager, and it is an executable file format used by many Red Hat-based community-driven, Linux distros. Since RHEL and distros based on RHEL are very popular, Google does have an official RPM package that can be downloaded and installed from their website. This is the safest, easiest, and recommended way to install Chrome on RHEL-based Linux Distros. One might follow the following steps to install Chrome :
Step 1 : Open the built-in browser (Firefox, in most cases) and search for Google Chrome. When you do so, multiple options will appear on the screen, relevant to your query. Since we want to download the package from the official Google Chrome website, we click on the first option, that says “Download Now”. This will navigate us to the page from where we can download the package from.
Search for Chrome
Step 2: When we reach this page, we will be greeted with a subtle animation about the features of the Chrome browser. And we can also see a download button, Just click the “Download Chrome” button.
Click on Download Chrome
Step 3pop-up: After clicking the button an overlay/pop-up , asks us which distribution/distro we are using. Since we are using a Red Hat (RHEL) based distro we choose the 64-bit .rpm package, which is a packaging format supported by RHEL, Fedora, and many other derived distros.
Installing Chrome
Step 4 double-clickdouble-click: Now we need to wait for some time for the file to download. Once the file is downloaded we head to the file manager and navigate to the Downloads folder. Here we see an executable file named google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm. This is the executable file that we need to install on our systems to install Chrome. To do this we simply double-click on the file to open it with the default app.
Double-click the downloaded file to open
Step 5: This opens the application store. From here we are now able to install the application on our systems. So we can go ahead and click the blue-colored Chromeup sourceChrome Install button to finally install Chrome.
Click on the install button
Step 6: After the installation is complete, we can go ahead and search for the Google Chrome app from the application menu and start using it. Just as we are used to on any other device.
Start using chrome
Method 2 : Using Flatpak
Flatpak is another popular way of installing new software on Linux open source based Hat-based open-sourceHat-basedopen-source RHEL-based open source and has been very popular in recent years. It is famous for its sand-boxed nature and opensource background. It can be used to quickly install apps on almost any Linux distro with ease. For this flatpack, music blue-colored Chromebased be enabled by the distro, if it is not, in that case, musicLinux open source go to https://flathub.org/setup and use the guidelines to set it up sourceRHEL-based open source based since they do differ from distro to distro. Following are the steps to install Google Chrome on RHEL-based pack flatpack distros using the flatpak image available on flathub :
Steps :
Step 1: Using the keyboard click the combination Ctrl+Alt+T this will open up the terminal application. If for some reason you are unable to do this. Just search for the the terminal from the application menu. After the terminal is open run the command “flatpak install flathub com.google.Chrome” on the terminal. This command is used to install the flatpak image of Google Chrome from the FlatHub website. (One of the biggest and best Flatpak stores)
flatpak install flathub com.google.Chrome
Run “flatpak install flathub com.google.Chrome”
Step 2: After running the command, we are asked for the confirmation, about whether or not we want to install the application. Since we want to install the application we type “y” to confirm the installation of this new application and the script continues.
Type “Y” to proceed
Step 3: After this, the flatpackstores command will list out all of the various dependencies that will be installed for the proper working of this app, along with their sizes. Since we know the application can not work without its dependencies already installed we simply type “y” once again to ensure successful download and setup of all dependencies.
Type “y” to confirm dependencies
Step 4: After some time, depending on your internet speed and the load on servers at the time, the application files will be downloaded and installed. At this point, we will see a small output stating “Installation Completed”. So now we can go ahead and use the application.
Installation Complete
Step 5: To use Chrome, just search for the ChromeWindows app from the application menu and click on it. This opens up the Google Chrome we are all familiar with. Now we can sign in and use the application in the same way, as we might on a Windows machine.
Start using chrome
Method 3RHEL-based: Using DNF
DNF stands for Dandified YUM package manager and is a widely popular package manager for RHEL-based, distros. DNF was introduced back in 2016 and is used by distros like Fedora, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and many more. With a simple-to-use, command line interface, it is a prime choice for installing, updating, and deleting packages. Hence it is based on RHEL-based installation flat packChrome obvious that we are including steps to install chrome via DNF as well. One might follow the following steps to install Chrome using DNF:
Steps :
Step 1: Using the keyboard click the combination Ctrl+Alt+T this will open up the terminal application. If for some reason you are unable to do this. Just search for the the terminal from the application menu. After the terminal is open run the command “sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories” on the terminal. This command is used to enable third-party repositories access on Fedora to provide access to software that isn’t available on base versions of Fedora by default.
sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories
Enabling Fedora’s third-party repositories
Step 2: Now that we are done, enable third-party, third-party access to third-party repositories. The next the the step is to enable the Google Chrome repository. This in particular will allow us to download, install, next Chrome, and update Chrome via DNF. To do this we run the command “sudo dnf config-manager –set-enabled google-chrome”.
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled google-chrome
Enabling Google Chrome’s repository
Step 3: Now we remain with one last thing to do, and that is to finally install Google’s Chrome browser. To do this we use the same command as we use for any other package we install from dnf, but since we want a Chromestable version of Chrome and not a developer or canary build, we write the following command “sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable” with root privileges.
sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable
Installing Google Chrome
Step 4: To use Chrome, just search for the ChromeWindows app from the application menu and click on it. This opens up the Google Chrome we are all familiar with. Now we can sign in and use the application in the same way, as we might on a Windows machine.
Start using Chrome
Method 4the : Using YUM
the enabled third-party manager is now manager widely used DNF package manager. YUM is a front end for the RPM package manager and allows for easy installationRPM and update of RPM packages. YUM is quite similar to package managers like apt, but unlike apt which is meant for DebianRHEL-based based distros, YUM can be used for RHEL-based distros.
So, follow the following steps to install Chrome using YUM :
Steps :
Step 1: Using the keyboard click the combination Ctrl+Alt+T this will open up the terminal application. If for some reason you are unable to do this. Just search for the the terminal from the application menu. After the terminal is open run the command “wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm” on the terminal. This command will download the latest rpm package of Google Chrome’s stable version from its website.
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
Downloading the RPM executable
Step 2: Now that the download is done, we can go ahead and use YUM to install this package. To do this we simply run the command “sudo yum install ./google-chrome-stable_current_*.rpm”. This will install whatever version of stable Google Chrome we downloaded just now.
sudo yum install ./google-chrome-stable_current_*.rpm
Installing the rpm package using YUM
Step 3: To use Chrome, just search for the ChromeRHEL-based app from the application menu and click on it. This opens up the Google Chrome we are all familiar with. Now we can sign in and use the application in the same way, as we might on any machine. Another way to do this might be to use a simple terminal command “google-chrome &”, this will also open Chrome.
google-chrome &
Start using Chrome
Conclusion
Installing software like Google Chrome on Popular distros like RHEL-based installation, installation distros can be done in multiple ways, by default it is recommended to use the official packages for ensuring safety. However if for some reason these packages are not working then trusted packages from 3rd party sources might be required. These are generally not recommended, since they are not assured by Google themselves, but sometimes they are the only option.
So try to stick with the first option, but if it doesn’t work then use other options.