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updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by johnny_canuck » 2021/10/20 20:23:05

Greetings --

Running CentOS 7 --- using Chrome as primary browser. Tried a yum update to Chrome (to chrome-stable-95.xxx, up from 94.xxx), but yum throws an error:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit) is needed by google-chrome-stable-95.xxx...
CentOS 7 has GLIBC_2.17, and there doesn't seem to be a simple way to update to handle the GLIBC_2.18 dependency.

Can anything be done? I'm not hugely fussed to stay with Chrome-94.xxx, at least for a while.

Thanks in advance...
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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by TrevorH » 2021/10/21 02:27:02

It's been reported to Google and I believe the hope is that they will go back to requiring the correct version.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/is ... id=1261617
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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by johnny_canuck » 2021/10/21 13:22:12

Many thanks - confirms my suspicions.

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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by centguy » 2021/10/22 03:20:29

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---> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:95.0.4638.54-1 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:3.10.0-1160.21.1.el7 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)
           Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@centos7-vostro ~]# yum -e google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64
Just to echo the observation.
Hopefully it is supported. I have lost google-chrome just to do the latest update. Only browser is Firefox now and hopefully it will do its job well.

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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by johnny_canuck » 2021/10/22 16:09:05

You haven't really lost anything -- you simply need to re-install 94.x.x. Just search for

google-chrome-stable-94.0.4606.81-1.x86_64.rpm

Install it, and keep the .rpm around as 'insurance' and future issues...

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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by TrevorH » 2021/10/22 17:01:56

I have lost google-chrome just to do the latest update
You've only lost it if you removed it. The yum update you ran bailed out before installing the newer copy.
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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBCC_2.18

Post by poltr1 » 2021/10/25 20:40:49

I did a 'yum clean packages' command on a client's system to clear up some space. Unfortunately, it took out the .rpm file I needed to rollback.

But fear not, as I found a copy of Google Chrome 94 (the rpm file) here:

https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/ ... 86_64.rpm

And then did a 'yum downgrade ./google-chrome-stable-94/0.4606.81-1.x86_64.rpm' to downgrade to Chrome 94.

This directory was difficult to get to as they don't offer any index files down the tree. I guess Google doesn't want anyone using old versions.

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Re: updating Google Chrome | GLIBC 2.18

Post by jimj » 2021/10/28 22:21:01

Looks like they've fixed the GLIBC 2.18 dependency, my Google Chrome updated today to google-chrome-stable.x86_64 95.0.4638.69-1.

As an added bonus my Firefox updated to 91.2.0-4.el7.centos.x86_64 yesterday, so I now have two modern browsers to use on CentOS 7.

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