Comments on: Installing Chromium on Fedora

By: Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:11:13 +0000

yum install chromium
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F11/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: chromium. Please verify its path and try again

By: Valent

Valent — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:56:50 +0000

You should not use Tom Callaway’s chromium repo because it installs unstable Chromium 11 that crashes all the time, instead use these instructions to install stable Chromium 10 on Fedora:
http://fusionlinux.org/2011/04/19/install-chromium-on-fedora/

By: malik

malik — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:50:50 +0000

very nice how-to. thanks much

By: Why I’m using Fedora 13 now « Celettu’s Weblog

Why I’m using Fedora 13 now « Celettu’s Weblog — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:06:20 +0000

[...] Of course, at the time I was running Fedora, which was running fine, fast and stable, and had found by network printer just by looking at it. RPMFusion took care of the necessary media codecs and the nvidia driver (although that disabled the pretty plymouth theme, but I can live with that), and while I was surpised I didn’t find Chromium in the repositories, instructions on how to install it can be found here. [...]

By: Fedora 13 … up and running : Resa’s Blog

Fedora 13 … up and running : Resa’s Blog — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:43:53 +0000

[...] installing the Chromium browser I used the same instructions (the ones using yum) as I have used for Fedora 12. But … paid a little more attention this [...]

By: Giving Fedora 12 a try : Resa’s Blog

Giving Fedora 12 a try : Resa’s Blog — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:30:31 +0000

[...] In order to install this on Fedora I had to Google (again) but found very clear instructions here where I chose to follow the instruction for installing via yum. Chromium now works for me but [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:13:26 +0000

Sadly this used to work with Fedora 10 but now seems to be broken. It depends on versions of libxml2 and nss that are not supported by Fedora 10 core. Don’t know if this is a problem with Fedora 11? Probably not…

By: rockstarmode

rockstarmode — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:54:12 +0000

If you change the example slightly it’ll work with all supported versions of Fedora:
[chromium] name=Chromium Test Packages baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0

By: cacovsky

cacovsky — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:20:10 +0000

Works on F12 also!
Thanks!

By: Vedant Kumar

Vedant Kumar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:35:32 +0000

The Fedora 12 updates are much appreciated!