In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Chromium on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, The Chromium project covers two utilities Chromium and Chromium OS, which are the open-source projects of the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS. Chromium has been developed as an open-source browser project whose critical mission is to offer a more secure, faster, and more stable way to navigate the web where threats are constant at every minute.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Chromium on a CentOS 7 server.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 7.
- It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
- SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
- A
non-root sudo useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install Chromium on CentOS 7
Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
yum clean all yum install -y epel-release yum -y update
Step 2. Installing Chromium on CentOS 7.
To install Chromium on CentOS 7, just do it with yum the install command:
yum install -y chromium
Step 3. Accessing Google Chrome Web Browser.
Once the installation of the Chromium browser is complete you can start Chromium from the GNU applications menu or from a command-line terminal by executing the following command:
chromium
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Chromium. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Chromium web browser in CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Chromium website.
