Love it or hate it, Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers. It often gets the flak for being a resource hog, but its user base still can’t avoid using it. Most Linux distributions have Mozilla Firefox as their default web browser, which is essentially the same animal but of an entirely different breed.
Fedora comes with Mozilla Firefox as its default web browser
But if you want to switch to Google Chrome, there are several ways to do it, and we’ll explore each in this tutorial.
Requirements
This tutorial uses Fedora 37 but should also work with earlier versions.
Method 1: Install Google Chrome for Fedora from GNOME Software
The GNOME Software is pre-installed with Fedora. But Google Chrome is not something you can install from the default Fedora repositories. Don’t worry, though, you can enable third-party repositories within Software, and one of those is for Google Chrome.
First, open the Software app on your computer.
Click on the hamburger menu in the upper-right corner and click Software Repositories.
Scroll down to the Fedora Third Party Repositories section and switch on the google-chrome repository.
This change requires administrative privileges. When prompted, enter your password and click Authenticate.
And close the Software Repositories window.
Next, click the search icon, type Google Chrome into the search box, and click the result.
On the next page, click the Install button to install Google Chrome for Fedora.
Wait for the Google Chrome for Fedora installation to complete.
That’s it! Google Chrome for Fedora is now installed.
Note. Check our post on how to install Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) on Ubuntu.
Method 2: Install Google Chrome for Fedora from the Terminal
If you’re more of a command-line user, then installing Google Chrome for Fedora from the terminal might be more under your turf.
First, let’s confirm that Fedora third-party repositories are installed on the system. To do so, open your terminal and run this command.
sudo dnf list fedora-workstation-repositories
According to the below result, the fedora-workstation-repositories package is already installed.
But if the fedora-workstation-repositories package is not installed, run this command to install it first:
sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories
Next, enable the google-chrome third-party repository:
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled google-chrome
And run this command to confirm that the google-chrome repository is enabled:
sudo dnf list enabled
After completing the prep work, we can now install the stable release of Google Chrome for Fedora.
sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable
Type y and press Enter to confirm.
You might be asked to import the GPG keys from Google. Make sure to answer yes every time.
And you’ve successfully installed Google Chrome for Fedora.
Method 3: Install Google Chrome for Fedora using the RPM File
This third method completely ditches the third-party repositories and goes straight to the package source.
Open a browser window (most probably Firefox) on your Fedora machine and go to this URL. Once the web page is loaded, click Download Chrome.
Next, choose the 64 bit .rpm option and click Accept and Install.
Note. Installing the RPM file also installed the Google repository on your system. This behavior is to ensure that Google Chrome for Fedora is constantly updated. You can suppress adding the repository by creating the /etc/default/google-chrome file before installing the package.
Once the download is finished, click the file from the download notification.
The RPM file automatically opens in the Software manager. As you can see, the source indicates that this package is from a local file. Click Install to install Google Chrome for Fedora.
Enter your password and click Authenticate.
Google Chrome for Fedora is now installed. You can click Open to launch the app or open it from the Applications drawer.
Conclusion
As you can see, installing Google Chrome for Fedora is not rocket science. Beginners and experts can handle any installation methods we covered in this tutorial.
Which installation method did you like best? Is there another way to install Google Chrome that we missed?
