We use headless Chrome instances for web scraping on Amazon Linux here at Intoli and so we maintain our own package which bundles the otherwise missing dependencies. If you’re using one of these versions then you’re kind of on your own… and the installation process is quite complicated due to the lack of GTK 3 on RHEL 6.X. Google does maintain a repository with a Chrome RPM package, but it only works with RHEL/CentOS 7.X versions.Īmazon Linux is currently only available as a 6.X version, and the 6.X versions of RHEL/CentOS remain fairly common (in part due to the transition from upstart to systemd in 7.X). This can be a bit frustrating when you’re interested in running headless Chrome instances in the cloud for testing or web scraping. The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), a community maintained repository of additional packages, significantly improves the situation, but doesn’t include Google Chrome/Chromium or a lot of other software that you would expect on more desktop-oriented distributions. They offer excellent performance and stability, but package availability can often be lacking.

# This installs Chrome on any RHEL/CentOS/Amazon Linux variant.Ī Universal Installation Script for Google Chrome on Amazon Linux and CentOS 6ĬentOS, Amazon Linux AMI, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are three closely related GNU/Linux distributions which are all popular choices for server installations. The easiest way to install the latest Chrome version on RHEL, CentOS, and Amazon Linux versions 6.X and 7.X.

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