I have the need to install Chrome via rpm-ostree (in my use-case, a flatpak install isn’t an option). Has anyone been able to install the native version, as even adding the .repo and building has not worked successfully for me (even ensuring the dependencies were pre-installed). If so, please give…

The short answer is I make updates work automatically by installing Chrome when I build my custom image (based on ublue/main and/or Bluefin). So it’s not an update in the usual sense. I just re-install it on a fresh container image instead of layering and having rpm-ostree handle the updates durin…

What error do you get when trying the repo file?

I can’t speak for @arenas93 , but I have been hacking at this for a little while. When I fix the existing google-chrome.repo in the silverblue image and add google-chrome-stable to the list of packages to add, I get this error: Installing 2 packages: google-chrome-stable-124.0.6367.91-1.x86_64 (…

Sorry for the late reply. I ended up just using Chromium and Firefox natively in order to be able to use the COPR of web-apps (a port from Linux Mint), since I have some use cases for PWAs.

Yes, installing Chrome by layering the downloaded RPM at runtime works. But you won’t get automatic updates without doing an uninstall-reinstall dance (sorry, can’t find the Fedora forum post that shows this at the moment). After I did that, rpm-ostree upgrade failed when when there was a Chrome u…

FWIW, I’m now able to install the Chrome RPM out of the Google repository on my custom images. The trick was to make sure that a there was a symlink to /usr/lib/opt/google in /opt at container build time, and there is, at least for now, a trick in the Bluebuild scripts that takes care of this nicel…

I don’t think there is, unless you go through the trouble to make a custom image, and do all of the installation at build time. I’ve made updating work for me by manually importing the GPG keys and then doing rpm-ostree install with the yum repo enabled. If I don’t import the keys ahead of time, …

Installing Chrome Natively

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chicagonyc May 3, 2024, 12:16pm 5

I successfully installed regular Chrome via ostree.

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Installing Chrome Natively

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