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I downloaded the 32 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE) to my CentOS machine. when installing it, I got the following error.

$ rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm
warning: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991
error: Failed dependencies:
        lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-chrome-stable-12.0.742.124-92024.i386
        libcurl.so.4 is needed by google-chrome-stable-12.0.742.124-92024.i386
        xdg-utils is needed by google-chrome-stable-12.0.742.124-92024.i386

This much is clear (I guess), that I need the package lsb version greater than or equal to 3.2, libcurl.so.4 and xdg-utils. But where will I get these from. I think installing the three above packages should resolve the installation error.

Addendum: Progress was made by installing the packages lsb and xdg-utils using the command yum install <pkg_name>. But I still have the libcurl.so.4 library file as a missing dependancy. Any ideas as to how this can be resolved.

Thomas
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You'll want to use yum, which is the Redhat command-line package manager.

In this case, lsb and xdg-utils refers to rpm packages, which you can find in the Centos repos by typing yum search <pkg_name>. If you want detailed information about a package, you can use yum info <pkg_name>. Once you find the packages that you need in the repos, you can install them with sudo yum install <pkgs>.

libcurl.so.4 isn't a package name, but rather a library file provided by some package, in this case libcurl. This can be determined by using yum whatprovides <filename>. Once you determine the package, you can install it as above.

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  • When I use yum whatprovides libcurl, I get no matches found. But the good news is that the command to install the google chrome package now says I don't have only libcurl.so.4. Any suggestions for this? – Thomas Jul 16 '11 at 07:15
  • @Thomas If you try to run 'yum localinstall google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm' does yum is able to resolve the dependencies? – Vitor Py Jul 16 '11 at 16:42
  • @Thomas - I'm not sure why it didn't find it, but I tested it against a different repo. You can run sudo yum clean all and then sudo yum makecache to rebuild the local yum database and try again. It's a good idea to do this periodically, anyways. However, the package you need is called libcurl. You can search/info/install it according to above instructions. – Joe Internet Jul 17 '11 at 00:42
  • @Vitor Braga When I run yum localinstall google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm, I get Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package google-chrome-stable-12.0.742.124-92024.i386 among other details and it doesn't resolve the library file dependency. – Thomas Jul 23 '11 at 10:12
  • @Joe Internet ... after some research it seems that the command yum whatprovides libcurl.so.4 will only work on a machine that already has the package that placed the libcurl.so.4 file in that machine. It is of no use on a machine that does not already have the file. I tried running the sudo yum clean all and then sudo yum makecache to rebuild the local yum database; but this did not help. I also attempted installing the package libcurl by using the command yum install libcurl, but it returned No package libcurl available. Any other ideas I could try? – Thomas Jul 23 '11 at 10:20
  • CentOS/RHEL 5 does not have libcurl.so.4, but libcurl.so.3. So, this rpm requires newer version of libcurl, which is not available in standard centos repos. Try to find an rpm for rhel 5, not for Fedora. – rvs Jul 23 '11 at 12:03
  • @Thomas Do you have the EPEL and RPMFusion repositories on the yum configuration? It's quite difficult to get "consumer" software like Chrome, which target distributions with faster updates like Fedora, without them. Try adding both. One of them probably have a newer version of libcurl like the one you need. – Vitor Py Jul 23 '11 at 13:35
  • @Thomas There's a prebuilt repository for Chromium over here (http://www.linux-powered.com/~ryoji.kamei/ChromiumCentOS5.xhtml). You could give it a try. – Vitor Py Jul 23 '11 at 13:43
  • @Thomas - Okay, it seems like your probably best off skipping Chrome... https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23746 – Joe Internet Jul 23 '11 at 15:03
  • @Thomas - I downloaded a newer version of licurl, and you can't install the rpm without significant dependencies on Centos 5. You can't just add the libraries to /usr/lib, either. Chrome may run on Centos 6, but I'm not set up to test it. Given that you seem (no offense) to be relatively new to Linux, I suggest that you use a distro other than Centos if you want to use more recently developed apps like Chrome. You could use Fedora or Ubuntu to have something at the leading edge of development. – Joe Internet Jul 23 '11 at 15:08
  • @Joe Internet. Thank you for testing and letting me know that the rpm which has an updated libcurl library won't run without further dependencies. As you've mentioned this task will be quite a feat for me to accomplish at this stage; and so I'm letting go. Thanks again. – Thomas Jul 25 '11 at 05:45
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for first time you need install this Lib sudo yum install libXScrnSaver I hed your problem and next time I installed this lib.end OK

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In the version available in June 2022, the following command installed the dependencies needed for the Chrome RPM:

yum -y install liberation-fonts vulkan*
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