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Install Chromium in Fedora 13


Chromium is open source project created by Google and community participation (within scope of Google Code) to substantiate basis for design and development of Chrome browser (along with its Chrome Frame).

In Fedora 13, default browser is Firefox, so for Chromium is available to install.

Precompiled rpm repositories exist with version of Chrome with whom we can.

So just follow these steps:

1 - Open a teminal and type:
  • $ su -
2 - Create a file chromium.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d typing following line:
  • $ gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
3 - Open file and paste following lines:
  • 1.[chromium]
  • 2.name=Chromium Test Packages
  • 3.baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
  • 4.enabled=1
  • 5.gpgcheck=0
4 - Save and close file and return to terminal, type:
  • $ yum install chromium
This install Chromium in your Fedora 13, now just have to go look in Applications/Internet/Web browser Chromium.

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