Chromium is the open source web browser project on top of which the Google Chrome is built. I personally think that the project is nothing short of fantastic and I’ve been using Chromium/Google Chrome ever since Linux builds became available. In Fedora 11 it’s really easy to get a hold of them by simple adding two yum repositories.
For Chromium you need to perform the following:
As superuser(root) create the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
Enter the following content in the file
[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
And finally execute this command(assuming you have configured sudo, that is):
sudo yum install chromium
After its completion you’ll see the Chromium icon in the Applications->Internet menu.
The procedure is largely the same for Google Chrome. First create the file that will house the definition
for the Google RPM repository:
/etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
Then add this to the newly created file:
[google]
name=Google – i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
And in the end simply run:
sudo yum install google-chrome-unstable
Google Chrome should now appear in the Applications->Internet menu.
Enjoy!
