Install Chrome on Amazon Linux2 WorkSpaces

Install Chrome on Amazon Linux2 WorkSpaces

I recently started playing with Amazon workspace as my personal development environment and choose Standard with Amazon Linux 2 as my AMI.

Below quick steps to setup Chrome

Note : Amazon Linux 2 seems to be based on Centos RHEL Fedora based on the /etc/hosts files

Create a new file with the contents given below. This will basically point to google repository for distribution file

> sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
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yumdownloader google-chrome-stable

you should see packages installing and a prompt to accept the security key, press y and enter.

That’s It, you should a message with complete.

Retrieving key from https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
Is this ok [y/N]: y