Manas T

Google Chrome has so far released only a Beta version of Google Chrome for Linux. But what if you want to use the Dev version but are using a RPM distro like Fedora or Opensuse.

If you head to the Chrome release channels page, you will see that the Dev version is available only in Debian format. The page says:

Requirements: Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 or later CPU; 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 or later, or 32-bit Debian 5. Support for other Linux distributions is planned; unpacking the .deb files by hand may work.

But Google Chrome has a Dev version for RPM distros as well . To install the Dev version:

1. First get the Beta version of Google Chrome from here.

2. Install by double-clicking on it. This will install Google Chrome beta and add Google’s repo for future updates.

3. Now open you software management tool (PackageKit for Fedora) and search for google-chrome. You will see that google-chrome-unstable is also present in Google’s repo. So you can now uninstall google-chrome-beta and then install google-chrome-unstable.

For Fedora command line, the commands will be ‘yum erase google-chrome-beta’ and then ‘yum install google-chrome-unstable’.

It is time Google updates the Chrome early access channels page.