Hi all, Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my CentOS 6.7 x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore by Google Chrome. "This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because this Linux system will no longer be supported." Doing some google searches I found this; http://superuser.com/questions/1011832/this-computer-will-soon-stop-receiving-google-chrome-updates-because-this-linux Which in itself wasn't too uplifting... Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, but it seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser. Recompiling the available Chromium source is of course an option, but not for me. Not unless there are step-by-step guides doing it. There was a rather long and somewhat heated discussion regarding Chrome on CentOS a while ago. Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and how to get around this problem? Are the views on this matter still infected? I'm not looking forward to go back to the sluggish Firefox. 8-/ -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu, Sysadmin # Uppsala University # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry # Div of Org Pharm Chem # Box 574 # SE-75123 Uppsala # Sweden# # Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 # Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # This message was not sent from an iProduct! # # Please consider the environment before printing this email. # Join the campaign at http://thinkBeforePrinting.org # # MotD follows: # "You guys got something against spam?" -de Vriess, in Alien^4
> Date: Monday, January 25, 2016 07:18:06 +0000 > From: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> > > Hi all, > > Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my > CentOS 6.7 x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore > by Google Chrome. > > "This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates > because this Linux system will no longer be supported." > > Doing some google searches I found this; > http://superuser.com/questions/1011832/this-computer-will-soon-sto > p-receiving-google-chrome-updates-because-this-linux > > Which in itself wasn't too uplifting... > Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, > but it seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser. > > Recompiling the available Chromium source is of course an option, > but not for me. > Not unless there are step-by-step guides doing it. > > There was a rather long and somewhat heated discussion regarding > Chrome on CentOS a while ago. > Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and > how to get around this problem? > Are the views on this matter still infected? > > I'm not looking forward to go back to the sluggish Firefox. 8-/You're just seeing this now on a 6.7 system? I don't believe that google-chrome (as provided from the google repositories) has worked (been installable) on Centos-6.x machines for 2 years or more. [I just tried to install their current stable-48 on a 6.7 machine and got the libstdc++.so.6 dependency issue that broke this some time ago.] With Centos-7 you'll see that warning banner if/when you update to 48. That release has been in beta since mid-december: <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-December/156726.html> and was just pushed out from their "stable" channel late last week. My message in mid-december didn't elicit any real solution, but maybe that it's now hitting the stable release for Centos-7 there might be more interest.
> Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and how to > get > around this problem?http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk
Am 25.01.2016 um 16:19 schrieb Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net>:> > >> Date: Monday, January 25, 2016 07:18:06 +0000 >> From: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my >> CentOS 6.7 x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore >> by Google Chrome. >> >> "This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates >> because this Linux system will no longer be supported." >> >> Doing some google searches I found this; >> http://superuser.com/questions/1011832/this-computer-will-soon-sto >> p-receiving-google-chrome-updates-because-this-linux >> >> Which in itself wasn't too uplifting... >> Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, >> but it seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser. >> >> Recompiling the available Chromium source is of course an option, >> but not for me. >> Not unless there are step-by-step guides doing it. >> >> There was a rather long and somewhat heated discussion regarding >> Chrome on CentOS a while ago. >> Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and >> how to get around this problem? >> Are the views on this matter still infected? >> >> I'm not looking forward to go back to the sluggish Firefox. 8-/ > > You're just seeing this now on a 6.7 system? I don't believe that > google-chrome (as provided from the google repositories) has worked > (been installable) on Centos-6.x machines for 2 years or more. [I > just tried to install their current stable-48 on a 6.7 machine and > got the libstdc++.so.6 dependency issue that broke this some time > ago.] > > With Centos-7 you'll see that warning banner if/when you update to > 48. That release has been in beta since mid-december: > <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-December/156726.html> > > and was just pushed out from their "stable" channel late last week. > > My message in mid-december didn't elicit any real solution, but > maybe that it's now hitting the stable release for Centos-7 there > might be more interest.upstream provide a EL6 supplementary repository with chromium-browser. the emphasis lies on upstreams distribution. sources not available. -- LF
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Richard > Sent: den 25 januari 2016 16:19 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome and CentOS 6? > > > You're just seeing this now on a 6.7 system? I don't believe that > google-chrome (as provided from the google repositories) has worked > (been installable) on Centos-6.x machines for 2 years or more. [I > just tried to install their current stable-48 on a 6.7 machine and > got the libstdc++.so.6 dependency issue that broke this some time > ago.]Correct, on a CentOS 6.7 x64-system, it just started popping up about a week ago. The Richard Lloyd-solution (are you The Richard Lloyd providing the install-script for Chrome?) has been working fine so far for me, flawlessly even. I'm just not quite sure what will happen in march, with the provided solution from http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/.> With Centos-7 you'll see that warning banner if/when you update to > 48. That release has been in beta since mid-december: > <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-December/156726.html> > > and was just pushed out from their "stable" channel late last week. > > My message in mid-december didn't elicit any real solution, but > maybe that it's now hitting the stable release for Centos-7 there > might be more interest.I'd really like an official solution trickling down from RHEL. The script works fine, but it's, well rather ghetto. 8-) -- //Sorin
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote:> Hi all, > > Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my CentOS 6.7 > x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore by Google Chrome. > > "This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because this > Linux system will no longer be supported." > > Doing some google searches I found this; > > http://superuser.com/questions/1011832/this-computer-will-soon-stop-receiving-google-chrome-updates-because-this-linux > > Which in itself wasn't too uplifting... > Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, but it > seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser. > > Recompiling the available Chromium source is of course an option, but not > for > me. > Not unless there are step-by-step guides doing it. > > There was a rather long and somewhat heated discussion regarding Chrome on > CentOS a while ago. > Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and how to get > around this problem? > Are the views on this matter still infected? > > I'm not looking forward to go back to the sluggish Firefox. 8-/ > > -- > BW, > Sorin >Bump. Please answer the original question (again) CentOS folks. Where are we with getting the RHEL version of Chromium available for CentOS? There should be no technical reason why we can't get a working, up to date, and therefore secure version of chromium running on CentOS 6.7!! -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> >> Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my CentOS 6.7 >> x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore by Google Chrome. >> >> "This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because this >> Linux system will no longer be supported."I wouldn't worry too much about this until it actually happens. It pretty much means that Google is not willing to support running Chrome on CentOS, but then they never did to begin with anyways, it just so happens that the statically-built RPM for Fedora runs on CentOS 7 without issue. It's a scary and pretty much meaningless message. Eventually Chrome will likely require some newer version of a library than is available on CentOS 7, this happened in 6 a few years ago, and when that happens hopefully someone can work on a solution to fix it (possibly back-porting the newer version of said library).>> Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, but it >> seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser.Right, Johnny Hughes (I think) used to build it, but IIRC he had to stop for reasons that you can find by searching this mailing list. Note that I'm personally not interested in getting chrome to work for CentOS 6, but I have a vested interest in keeping it working in 7, so when the time comes I'll very likely find a solution myself and share it. Peter