Installing Chrome on RHL or Centos

The shell script below is courtesy of Richard Lloid

Step-by-step guide

  1. You must have root privileges
  2. # wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
    # chmod +x install_chrome.sh
    # sh install_chrome.sh
  3. Do not run the app as root, switch back to a normal user and execute it using
    1. google-chrome & (the & runs the app in the background, the process ID will be delivered to the shell)

 

here is the install_chrome.sh file

install_chrome.sh