How To Install Google Chrome On RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

Google Chrome is the most popular and widely used browser all over the world and is available for all smartphones, tablets and all types of OS.

RHEL 8 ships with Firefox browser and ie the default browser

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest version of Google Chrome on Redhat 8 / CentOS 8 via 2 methods

• Via Google Yum repository
• Via RPM

Method 1: Via Yum repository

Step 1: Create a repo named Google chrome repo

[googlechrome-stable]
name=googlechrome-stable 

baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Step 2: Install Google Chrome using YUM

Verify the package and install it

yum info google-chrome-stable

Install it

yum install google-chrome-stable

Note: If you are updating only google chrome use the below command

yum update google-chrome-stable

Method 2: Via RPM

Step 1: Download the package

Download the package from official Google Chrome

Save the package or open with the default software installer to install once the download completes

If you have saved the file issue the below command to install it from the command prompt

dnf install google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

Step 2: Open the chrome

Start the chrome from activities menu or type the below command from CLI

google-chrome