Chromium and Flash in my Fedora 15

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Julita Inca

I was missing my Chromium Web Browser since Firefox is included by default in Fedora 15, so I decide to use by instinct yum install chromium, but it was not enough  🙄

* Searching in forums I discover this solution:

1.-  Create a file chromium.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d 

[root@yulys yum.repos.d]# gedit chromium.repo

2.- Paste this on it:

[fedora-chromium]
name=Chromium web browser and deps (trunk checkout)
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[fedora-chromium-source]
name=Chromium web browser and deps – Source (trunk checkout)
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-$releasever/SRPMS/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0

3.- Now you can run on the terminal: yum install chromium


The icon will be displayed in Application/ Internet, ready to be added to your favorites!



* To install Adobe Flash: [1]

Keep this on your mind!!! Run it from Desktop file not from Download file

[root@yulys Desktop]# rpm -Uvh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
[root@yulys Desktop]# yum install flash-plugin

[1] See more: Marina’s comment

About Julita Inca

System Engineering degree at UNAC, Computer Science Masters at PUCP, High Performance Masters at University of Edinburgh, Winner OPW GNOME 2011, GNOME Foundation member since 2012, Fedora Ambassador since 2012, winner of the Linux Foundation scholarship 2012, Linux Admin at GMD 2012, IT Specialist at IBM 2013. Academia experience in lecturing at PUCP, USIL and UNI Peru (2010-2018). HPC intern at ORNL 2018. HPC Software Specialist at UKAEA since 2020. Tech Certifications: RHCE, RHCSA, AIX 6.1, AIX 7 Administrator, and ITILv3. Leader of LinuXatUNI Community, Creator of the "Mujeres Imperfectas | I'm perfect woman" channel, Reviewer of the Technological Magazine of ESPOL-RTE, Online trainer at BackTrackAcademy, blogger, photographer, IT-Linux-HPC-science worldwide speaker, graphic designer, researcher, content creator, press communicator... a simple mortal, just like you!
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11 Responses to Chromium and Flash in my Fedora 15

  1. Marina says:
    May 10, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    Did you try installing Adobe Flash? Here is what I had to do on F15 to get it to work.
    – download “YUM for Linux” package from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
    – follow the instruction under http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/instructions/#section-3 “Installation instructions for the YUM repository definition”
    – I also did ‘sudo yum install adobe-linux-i386’ in addition to ‘sudo yum install flash-plugin’, though I’m not sure what was that needed for

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  2. Julita Inca says:
    May 10, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Nice Marinaaaaaa, as always!!!… I did the first step you indicate above, but I did not ‘sudo yum install adobe-linux-i386’… I’ll try again tonight and see what happens ;D

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    • bochecha says:
      May 10, 2011 at 9:21 pm

      Or, you could just follow the documentation 🙂
      http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash

      And remember, it’s a wiki. So if you find something is not very clear, or doesn’t work, be bold and modify it! 😉

      Hope that helps.

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      • Julita Inca says:
        May 10, 2011 at 11:54 pm

        Thanks bochecha for your comment… the link you recommend makes me understand some of this! 🙂

        #yum search flash
        Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
        updates-testing/pkgtags | 39 kB 00:00
        ============================== N/S Matched: flash ==============================
        django-flash.noarch : A Django extension to provide support for Rails-like flash
        gallery2-flashvideo.noarch : Flashvideo module for Gallery 2
        python-webflash.noarch : Portable flash messages for WSGI apps
        0xFFFF.i686 : The Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher
        anki.noarch : Flashcard program for using space repetition learning
        flashrom.i686 : Simple program for reading/writing BIOS chips content
        flasm.i686 : Flash bytecode assembler disassembler
        gnash.i686 : GNU flash movie player
        gnash-klash.i686 : Konqueror flash movie player plugin
        gnash-plugin.i686 : Web-client flash movie player plugin
        granule.i686 : Flashcards program based on Leitner methodology
        ignuit.i686 : Memorization aid based on the Leitner flashcard system
        libnxt.i686 : Utility for flashing LEGO Mindstorms NXT firmware
        mnemosyne.noarch : Flash-card learning tool
        mtd-utils.i686 : Utilities for dealing with MTD (flash) devices

  3. Marina says:
    May 10, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    You definitely need to unpack the rpm with ‘rpm -Uvh ‘ and run ‘yum install flash-plugin’, as the instructions suggest to get this to work. As I said, I’m not fully sure what ‘yum install adobe-linux-i386’ was necessary for.

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    • Julita Inca says:
      May 10, 2011 at 11:48 pm

      Thanks so much Marina!!! again and again xD
      The solution was always there!!… I just did:
      [root@yulys Desktop]# rpm -Uvh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
      [root@yulys Desktop]# yum install flash-plugin
      *** My foolish mistake… I was run it from Download instead of Desktop

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  4. joe says:
    May 11, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    thanks for the repo, worked perfectly. i prefer firefox but so far it has crashed and completely frozen my desktop 3 times in about 10 minutes, so lets try chromium. hard to know if its a problem with young gnome3 or the beta fedora15 im running.

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  5. Dilip Kumar says:
    May 21, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Chromium installed…thanks for the content

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