Installing Chromium under $HOME on RHEL 6-ish x86_64 systems
Based upon Install Chromium (with Pepper Flash) on CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5 with modifications to permit non-root usage...
mkdir ~/workaround && cd ~/workaround wget http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/x86_64/RPMS/chromium-31.0.1650.63-2.el6.x86_64.rpm # 32-bit seemingly in repo too rpm2cpio chromium-31.0.1650.63-2.el6.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv ./opt/chromium-browser/chromium-browser # Bombs on sandboxing complaints ./opt/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --no-sandbox # Confirm behaves for you mv ./opt/chromium-browser ~ # Moving the whole directory into a permanent location echo '#/bin/sh' > ~/bin/chromium-browser # Assuming you have ~/bin in your path echo 'exec $HOME/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --no-sandbox "$@"' >> ~/bin/chromium-browser chmod a+x ~/bin/chromium-browser chromium-browser http://www.google.com & # Rejoice cd && rm -rf ~/workaround # Hygiene
The are glaring drawbacks to running Chromium with --no-sandbox
so don't do it without considering its implications.