> 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
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:37:44AM +1200, Peter wrote:> > 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.I think Richard Lloyd had (has?) versions that work, but are usually a bit old. At present, CentOS-7 works with the rpm for Fedora on Google's site. I don't think RedHat had their own official rpm for either RHEL-6 or 7, did (do) they? I eventually updated to CentOS-7 on my main home machine, so I haven't kept up. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro11 at gmail.com> wrote:> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:37:44AM +1200, Peter wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > I think Richard Lloyd had (has?) versions that work, but are usually a bit > old. >This is just a script that pulls some libraries from a Fedora repo. Unfortunately that approach won't hold muster with security auditors . At present, CentOS-7 works with the rpm for Fedora on Google's site. I> don't think RedHat had their own official rpm for either RHEL-6 or 7, did > (do) they? > >They do, in their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary repository. c.f.> I eventually updated to CentOS-7 on my main home machine, so I haven't kept > up. >We have over 150 workstations still on CO 6.7 while we are stuck dealing with all the changes to our environment necessary to code and test because of systemd in CO 7. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu