How To Install chromium-headless on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on CentOS 7.
What is chromium-headless
A minimal headless client built from Chromium. headless_shell is built without support for alsa, cups, dbus, gconf, gio, kerberos, pulseaudio, or udev.
We can use yum or dnf to install chromium-headless on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chromium-headless.
Install chromium-headless on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install chromium-headless using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install chromium-headless
Install chromium-headless on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install chromium-headless using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install chromium-headless
How To Uninstall chromium-headless on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the chromium-headless package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove chromium-headless
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.