How to : Install Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Fedora, CentOS, Mageia and OpenSUSE

Install Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6, CentOS 5, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, Mandriva and OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1

Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance

A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

While the first iteration of Chrome 43 (the first version promoted from the Beta to the Stable channel) brought 37 bug-fixes, Chrome 43 has been updated yet again (Chrome  43.0.2357.124 being promoted), updating the Flash Player to version 18.0.0.160 and bringing security fixes.
Installation instructions:

Google Chrome is available via the Google repositories for all the popular Linux systems, so installing and keeping Chrome up to date will be easy.

How to install the latest version of Chrome on Fedora, CentOS and derivative systems:

to install  Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20 and CentOS 6, CentOS 5 derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems:

Add the repository to your system:

$ sudo su
$ cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - \$basearch
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/\$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
EOF

Update the local repository index and install the google-chrome-stable package:

$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable

Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:

$ sudo yum remove google-chrome-stable

How to install the latest version of Chrome on OpenSUSE and derivative systems:

to install Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-stable

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-stable

Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:

$ sudo zypper remove google-chrome-stable

How to install the latest version of Chrome on Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:

to install Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Mageia 5, Mageia 4 and Mandriva derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_i386 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-stable

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_x86_64 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-stable

Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:

$ sudo urpme google-chrome-stable

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.