Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 998693
Request to add chromium to EPEL
Last modified: 2014-04-30 20:33:39 EDT
What is the nature and description of the request? Google has noted that they will no longer update nor support running chrome on RHEL 6. In their parlance: "Google Chrome has stopped updating and no longer supports this version of your operating system." https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=175842 End of support looks to land with Version 27. The google chrome download page points to the following URL for community supported versions: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumPackages Fedora is listed there, could we see Chromium made available for EPEL? Why does the customer need this? End users of RHEL wanting to use Chrome would need to switch to a supported distribution for Chrome support. How would the customer like to achieve this? Pull existing code in to EPEL. List the affected packages Chromium http://code.google.com/p/chromium/
I would just note that chromium isn't even in Fedora proper due to its assorted compatiblity issues, bundled libraries, and other problems. (It's also not a 1-to-1 replacement for Chrome.)