10 April 2014

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.

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