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Fedora 13 comes with Mozilla Firefox and by default doesn’t have Chromium installed. Chromium is an open source browser developed by Google. The reasons Chromium is not part of official Fedora repository is well explained by Joe Brockmeier at Making Projects Easier to Package: Why Chromium Isn’t in Fedora. However, Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser. Following is how we can install Chromium on Fedora 13.

1. Open a terminal window and type

su -

2. Create a chromium.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d using the following command at Terminal

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

3. In the opened file paste the following code

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

4.Save and close the file and at the terminal type the following command

yum install chromium

This should install Chromium on your Fedora 13. You can find it under Applications > Internet > Chromim Web Browser. Following a screeshot of Chromium running on my Fedora 13.