Installing Google Chrome on Amazon Linux

Question

I am trying to install the latest version of Google Chrome on Amazon Linux using yum.

As far as I can tell Amazon Linux is based on RHEL/Centos however, it doesn't look like Google support this directly anymore.

I followed the instructions from http://www.raywaresoftware.com/10/using_yum_to_install_google_chrome/ however, when it comes to installing using the command

yum install google-chrome-stable

This command outputs the errors

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-44.0.2403.157-1.x86_64 (google-chrome) Requires: libXss.so.1()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-44.0.2403.157-1.x86_64 (google-chrome) Requires: libgconf-2.so.4()(64bit)

I have tried to install libXss using the command

yum install libXScrnSaver

However, I get the message:

2498 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No package libXScrnSaver available. Error: Nothing to do

How can I install the missing packages?

I am now stuck because we need to install Chrome on a server to run headless UI tests via Xvfb but we cannot get Chrome onto the server.

Thanks

Solution

There is an AWS Forums thread detailing how to do this at https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=229187

Also, there is a more recent blog at https://medium.com/@davidkadlec/installing-google-chrome-on-amazon-linux-ec2-d1cb6aa37f28

Comments

[Tim]

David, generally Server Fault asks that answers contain the required information, rather than just links. Links stop working fairly regularly, in which case the answer isn't useful.