Friday, 1 June 2012

Having trouble getting Chrome to work on Fedora 17?

Not sure if this is just me, but I panicked just a bit when I couldn't get my beloved chrome to work on the Fedora partition of my computer. Since it has all of my bookmarks, account information, automatic sign-ins, and all those other luxuries we're used to on the internet all saved into it.

So anyway, here is a bit of code you can type in the terminal that worked for me, I'm sure there are still some loose ends to tie up, but I'm afraid I'm not too experienced to really fill in the gaps. Overall it does open up Chrome and it works just fine so far.

Have fun!


  • wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
  • sudo rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub
  • sudo sh -c 'echo "[google] name=Google Chrome 32-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo'
  • sudo yum install google-chrome-stable
  • sudo yum install libXrender.i686
  • sudo yum install libgtk*
  • sudo yum -y install gtk2.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686
  • sudo yum install libstdc++.i686
  • sudo yum install xulrunner.i686