Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on CentOS 8.
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 8. 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 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install chromium-headless using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install chromium-headless
Install chromium-headless on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install chromium-headless using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install chromium-headless
How To Uninstall chromium-headless on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the chromium-headless package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove chromium-headless
chromium-headless Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/3f5c5773148cb480c0b40a1b45db1c48c09b00
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/headless_shell
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
