On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 13:19:52 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 12:55 PM Stephen Isard ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:54:19 -0500, Mark Stodola <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >On 10/22/21 9:40 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: >> >> For the past couple of days, I've been getting >> >> >> >> ------------------ >> >> /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: >> >> >> >> Failed to check for updates with the following error message: >> >> Failed to build transaction: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64 >> >> requires libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit) >> >> ------------------ >> >> >> >> Disabling the google-chrome repo makes the error message go away, of >> >> course, >> >> and lets check-update proceed. But is this the end of the road for chrome >> >> updates on SL7, or is there some reasonably straightforward work-around? >> >> >> >> Stephen Isard >> > >> >For the record, I'm a Firefox user... I honestly don't see why some >> >people are so tied up on chrome. >> >There is a chromium package available that works fine and uses the same >> >rendering engine. >> >You could also look into a snap or appimage packaging. >> >Historically, google doesn't give a flip about supporting "old" anything. >> >> I mostly use firefox, but there are sites where it doesn't display properly >> and chrome does. (Maybe the converse is also true, but I wouldn't know >> because I only turn to chrome when firefox doesn't work.) >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.septa.org_schedules_rail_&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=i8lPkBMuEDK6cUEBTT5-REXMT8OK9fEHBGk__l0HSbnoQbkHHMRG1Ks2lzAzVJpb&s=OLOXT5NGr6IAORcdHsRPRPXfkr_gAd9_nSa5VFLmPBw&e= >> is an example of a site that firefox messes up for me. > >So use "chromium", rather than the leading edge and unlikely to be >stable google-chrome builds. Thanks! I hadn't been aware that there was a chromium rpm. I think it solves my problem. Stephen Isard
