Google has its open source version of its Chrome browser, currently under heavy development. The open source version is called Chromium.

Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, the Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser.

To install chromium, create a chromium.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

Then fill it up with this:-

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

After that, just yum install chromium

[root@atreides ~]# yum install chromium
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: mirror.oscc.org.my
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.transact.net.au
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.transact.net.au
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.transact.net.au
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.transact.net.au
 * updates: ftp.riken.jp
chromium                                                 | 1.2 kB     00:00
chromium/primary                                         | 2.4 kB     00:00
chromium                                                                    7/7
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package chromium.i586 0:3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libv8.so.0 for package: chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586
--> Running transaction check
---> Package v8.i586 0:1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
 
Dependencies Resolved
 
================================================================================
 Package     Arch    Version                                  Repository   Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 chromium    i586    3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11      chromium     11 M
Installing for dependencies:
 v8          i586    1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11             chromium    858 k
 
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
 
Total download size: 12 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 12 M
(1/2): chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586 |  11 MB     01:11
(2/2): v8-1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11.i586.rpm          | 858 kB     00:06
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           149 kB/s |  12 MB     01:19
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : v8-1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11.i586                     1/2
  Installing     : chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586        2/2
 
Installed:
  chromium.i586 0:3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11
 
Dependency Installed:
  v8.i586 0:1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11
 
Complete!

And walla!! Chromium for Fedora !!!

Here’s a screenshot of Chromium running on my machine:
chromium
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