Install Chrome On CentOS

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Until now I failed in installing chrome on CentOS, for the libstdc++ version is too old in the machine, but record the steps here, later I will continue to work on this issue.

Repository Preparation

Add following file in to your /etc/yum.repos.d:

~% cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo 
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Now install the chrome via:

$ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable
	 Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable-40.0.2214.91-1.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-40.0.2214.91-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)
           Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit)

The failure reason is because our libstdc++ version is too old.

Check Lib Version

View where is libstdc++:

$ ldconfig -p | grep stdc++
	libstdc++.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6

Get the strings which contains LIBCXX in the libstdc++.so.6:

$ strings /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6  | grep LIBCXX
GLIBCXX_3.4
GLIBCXX_3.4.1
GLIBCXX_3.4.2
GLIBCXX_3.4.3
GLIBCXX_3.4.4
GLIBCXX_3.4.5
GLIBCXX_3.4.6
GLIBCXX_3.4.7
GLIBCXX_3.4.8
GLIBCXX_3.4.9
GLIBCXX_3.4.10
GLIBCXX_3.4.11
GLIBCXX_3.4.12
GLIBCXX_3.4.13
GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW
GLIBCXX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH

We could see the newest version of GLIBCXX is only 3.4.13, while chrome requuires 3.4.15. So the solution should be we install the newer version.

Upgrade GLIBCXX

TBD.