How to Install Chrome on Fedora (Terminal & GUI)

Fedora comes with its pre-installed Firefox web browser but I know there are things and tasks for which you may want to shift to Chrome like better compatibility with other Google Products or sync or a vast variety of extensions.

Whatever the reason may be, the good thing is it’s not really hard to get Google Chrome installed and running on your Fedora system.

Hang in here with me and I will show you in this article how you can easily install Chrome on Fedora with a few simple steps.

Install Chrome on Fedora from Fedora Software Store

Well, you can actually download and install Chrome from Fedora’s official software manager itself by turning on the third-party repositories option.

To do so, follow the steps below –

Step 1 – Open the Fedora software store.

Step 2 – Click on the three-line button in the top right corner of the software manager. It will open a list of options.

Step 3 – Now Click on Software Repositories. It will open a new window of Software Repositories options.

Step 4 – Scroll to the bottom and turn on Google Chrome’s repository and then close the Software Repositories window.

Step 5 – Now Click on the search icon on the top left corner of the window and search for Chrome.

Step 6 – After searching it will come listed in the software manager list. You can click on it and install it from there.

Install Google Chrome using a Browser

If you want to install Chrome from the official Google website, you can do so as Google officially supports Chrome for Fedora.

Follow the steps given below to download the Chrome RPM package from the official website and install the browser through the official Chrome package.

Step 1 – Go to Google Chrome’s Download Page

Since Google officially supports downloading and installing chrome on four major Linux distros. No Doubt fedora is one of them. So you can download the .rpm package from Google’s official Chrome website. To do so, click on the link given below to go to Chrome’s download page.

Step 2 – Download the .rpm Chrome package

After landing on the page, you’ll see a Download Chrome Button. Clicking on it will open a new window where Google will ask you for what Linux system you want to download the Chrome file.

In the list, you’ll see two Chrome packages that Google supports. 64-bit .deb for Debian and Ubuntu and 64-bit .rpm for Fedora & OpenSuse.

Since we need the Chrome package for Fedora, you have to select the .rpm Fedora package and click on Accept and Install and save the file.

Step 4 – Open the Downloads folder

Once the file has been downloaded, you now need to go to the downloads folder and locate the Chrome RPM package you just downloaded.

Double-click on it and it will launch a new window where you will get the option to install Chrome.

Step 5 – Install Chrome .rpm Package

Click on the install button and wait for the installation to complete.

Now you can go ahead and hit the windows or super key and search for chrome. You’ll see it listed there once it’s installed.

You can click on the Chrome app icon to launch the chrome app on your Fedora system and get along with your work.

Yay! Chrome has finally been successfully installed on your Fedora Linux using browser.

If you want to directly install Google Chrome from the Fedora terminal only, follow along. We’re on it.

Install Chrome on Fedora using the terminal

Most long-time Linux users turn to the terminal for installing or updating anything on their system. If you’re new to Fedora or say Linux in general.

You might find this method a little overwhelming and complicated but if you use Linux long enough you’ll get used to it and will prefer terminal solutions more than GUI.

We just learned that Google officially supports the Google Chrome download package for Fedora but can you directly install Chrome on Fedora using the terminal only?

Well, yes you can… just with a bunch of commands.

Follow the steps given below to install Google Chrome via Fedora Terminal.

Step 1 – Open Terminal

Press the windows or the super key and search for “terminal” click on the listed terminal result to launch the terminal.

Step 2 – Install Third Party Repository

First, we need to install some more Fedora third-party Repositories to be able to enable Chrome Repository.

To do so.

Type in –

sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories

And hit enter.

Step 3 – Enable Chrome Repo

Now Once the repositories have been installed we need to enable the Chrome Repository to be able to install Chrome on Fedora using the terminal.

To enable Chrome repository directly in the terminal as we did in the Software manager method graphically.

Type the command given below into the terminal.

sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled google-chrome

And hit enter.

It will enable the Chrome repository through the terminal and now you can just go ahead and install Google Chrome on Fedora using the terminal’s last needed command.

Step 4 – Install Chrome on Fedora using Terminal

Now the last thing that you need to do is to type the command below into the terminal and hit enter to install Chrome on your Fedora PC.

sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable

After the process is completed Chrome should have been installed on your Fedora Linux.

How to update chrome on Fedora

Well, Chrome doesn’t get auto-updated on Linux rather Chrome’s update is handled by your package manager.

For Fedora package manager is dnf, so all the updates of installed Chrome would be handled by dnf only.

The good news is with each available system update, Chrome does get updates to its latest stable version.

But you can also manually update Chrome through the terminal using dnf package manager if you want to update it to its latest stable version or if you’re facing any issues.

To manually update Chrome on Fedora using the terminal, follow these steps –

Step 1 – Launch Terminal

Press the windows / super key and search and launch the terminal.

Step 2 – Fetch package updates

Type in –

sudo dnf update

To get the packages refreshed.

Step 3- Upgrade Packages

Now you’ll have to upgrade all the updates we fetched.

For that, type in –

sudo dnf upgrade

Step 3 – Update Chrome to the latest version

Now to update Chrome to its latest version, you’ll have to type –

sudo dnf upgrade google-chrome-stable

And hit enter. This command will install the latest stable version of Chrome on your Fedora system.

Conclusion

So these were 3 short methods both command line and Graphical with which you would be able to download and install Chrome on your Fedora Linux. That was pretty much it for this article.

If you’re having any trouble installing or updating Chrome, do let me know in the comments down below, and I will try to help you resolve your issue.

FAQs Related to Google Chrome and Fedora

Here are a few most frequently asked questions related to Chrome and Fedora.

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