How To Install Google Chrome on Fedora 35

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Google Chrome on Fedora 35. For those of you who didn’t know, Google Chrome is the most popular open-source web browser developed by Google. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It is a fast and solid browser with a good security record. It has some unique features and is generally pretty light on system resources.

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 the Google Chrome web browser on a Fedora 35.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Fedora 35 or Fedora 34.
• 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 user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Google Chrome on Fedora 35

Step 1. Before proceeding, update your Fedora operating system to make sure all existing packages are up to date. Use this command to update the server packages:

sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core

Step 2. Installing Google Chrome on Fedora 35.

By default, Chrome is available on Fedora 35 base repository. Now we enable Google Chrome repository to your Fedora system:

sudo su -
sed -i 's/enabled=0/enabled=1/' /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

Next, install Google Chrome using dnf command:

sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable

If you want to install the beta version of Google Chrome, run the below command to install it:

sudo dnf install google-chrome-beta

Verify the build and version of Chrome:

google-chrome --version

Step 3. Accessing Google Chrome on Fedora.

Once successfully installed, open with the path: Activities -> Show Applications -> Google Chrome to start it, Alternatively from a command-line terminal by executing the following command:

google-chrome-stable

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Chrome. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Google Chrome browser on your Fedora 35 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Chrome website.