Extracting Chrome on Fedora

[Beef Boss]

I haven't been able to successfully extract and activate Chrome on my Fedora HDD. I can easily extract Tor but Chromes files are not recognized by Fedora. Any help here? 

[heimdali]

What do you mean by "extract"?

 

[Beef Boss]

2 minutes ago, heimdali said:

What do you mean by "extract"?

 

I mean opening the files, and using the program file itself. Programs don't just show up by themselves. The files are radically different 

[heimdali]

If you have an rpm for it that doesn´t come within the distribution, you can install it with rpm -i <packagename.rpm>.  Doing so may or may not be a good idea.

 

Besides, I tried chrome once and found it couldn´t do anything but basic web browsing, so I deleted it.

 

[Beef Boss]

2 minutes ago, heimdali said:

If you have an rpm for it that doesn´t come within the distribution, you can install it with rpm -i <packagename.rpm>.

 

I'll look into this, I don't have access to system right now. Firefox and tor do not support the type of files online I am trying to view

[rip]

11 minutes ago, BadluckBrian said:

I'll look into this, I don't have access to system right now. Firefox and tor do not support the type of files online I am trying to view

chromium?

[Sauron]

On 24/10/2017 at 6:44 PM, BadluckBrian said:

I'll look into this, I don't have access to system right now. Firefox and tor do not support the type of files online I am trying to view

Linux distributions don't work like windows, you don't get an executable in a zip or whatever, you get a package that can be installed with the package manager as detailed by @heimdali.

 

Also, instead of manually downloading the package, you can open a terminal and use the package manager to look for and automatically download and install the program you want.

sudo yum install chromium

 

[Beef Boss]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Linux distributions don't work like windows, you don't get an executable in a zip or whatever, you get a package that can be installed with the package manager as detailed by @heimdali.

 

Also, instead of manually downloading the package, you can open a terminal and use the package manager to look for and automatically download and install the program you want.

sudo yum install chromium

 

I fixed it, but thank you! I was just downloading from the web not from the actual store... lol

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, BadluckBrian said:

I fixed it, but thank you! I was just downloading from the web not from the actual store... lol

Mark the thread as solved then 

[heimdali]

1 hour ago, BadluckBrian said:

I fixed it, but thank you! I was just downloading from the web not from the actual store... lol

Store?

 

It is usually a good idea to use the package that comes with the distribution; if there isn´t one, get the source and compile yourself, with few exceptions.

 

When you have an arbitrary rpm, it doesn´t mean it´s compatible with the distribution you´re using.  That´s one of the disadvantages of rpm.