CentOS - Feb 2013 - No more support for chrome/chromium on rhel6

https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby

Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an
old version of gtk2.

If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like
google-chrome and it works very well with google services.  I was
planning on using C6 for a long time. Does anyone know of a repo that
intends to keep Chromium working for C6?

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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>
wrote:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
>
> Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an
> old version of gtk2.
>
No clue here.  I don't run X on any of my production systems.
And CentOS isn't my desktop distro.

>
> If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like
> google-chrome and it works very well with google services.  I was
> planning on using C6 for a long time. Does anyone know of a repo that
> intends to keep Chromium working for C6?
>
The Fedora Project [0] may maintain Chromium builds for EL6.  I know that
in the past they've maintained Chromium builds for Fedora.
It actually seems like someone [1] might be gearing up to do just that for
EL6.

Report back if you give that repo a try as others have indicated on the
"firefox problem" thread that they use Chrom(e|ium) on CentOS 6.

[0] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/
[1] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/chromium-stable/

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>
wrote:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
>
> Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an
> old version of gtk2.
Update, I just read the issue is also C++11 and gcc 4.6. Apparently,
Chromium devs prefer to use the newer c++ standard and that breaks the
toolchain on older distros. I think C6 uses gcc 4.4.6.

Also rumor is Google and Red Hat are now talking about this issue. I
hope a solution can be found.


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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada

On 12.02.2013 01:14, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
> 
> Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an
> old version of gtk2.
> 
> If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like
> google-chrome and it works very well with google services.  I was
> planning on using C6 for a long time.
When you make this kind of plans it's always good to reply on as few 
3rd party as you can, especially for core components such as the 
browser.
I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was 
too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, 
but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting 
updates and so on?

If you plan long term stuff go with the RH provided browser. I'd look 
into switching back to Firefox.

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