How do I uninstall Google Chrome in Fedora?

Yesterday I installed Fedora 15 Beta with GNOME 3 - it works well. One problem though is that I installed Chrome 32-bit (which was wrong, should have been the 64-bit version) and now I can't uninstall it.

I can't find it in Add/Remove Software, and I also can't install the correct version of Chrome because it complains about my other copy of Chrome.

Any ideas how I can remove the existing copy and get the 64-bit version installed?

Here's the message I get when trying to install:

Test Transaction Errors:   file /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome from install of google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.x86_64 conflicts with file from package google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.i386
  file /opt/google/chrome/chrome from install of google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.x86_64 conflicts with file from package google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.i386
  file /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox from install of google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.x86_64 conflicts with file from package google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.i386
  file /opt/google/chrome/libffmpegsumo.so from install of google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.x86_64 conflicts with file from package google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.i386
  file /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so from install of google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.x86_64 conflicts with file from package google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.i386
  file /opt/google/chrome/libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so from install of google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.x8...

tbleckert

Posted 2011-05-10T19:43:04.150

Reputation: 173

Answers

Open up a terminal, and enter:

rpm -qa | grep chrome

Look to see if you can find the installed Chrome package, and if you find it, enter:

rpm -e <chrome package name here>

For example:

rpm -e google-chrome-stable-22.0.1229.94-161065.i386

If you're looking for where the files are located, it may be different depending on a distro, but you can start by checking the popular answer here.

TheEmpireNeverEnded

Posted 2011-05-10T19:43:04.150

Reputation: 536

Hm, thank you! I found google chrome and when I tried rpm -e ... it says "package google-chrome-stable-11.0.696.65-84435.i368 is not installed" – tbleckert – 2011-05-10T20:09:10.793

1Very strange. Can you try rpm --rebuilddb, then double check rpm -qa to see if it's still there, then try the uninstall again? Make sure you spelled the package correctly ;)

Not sure this would help either, but you could also try the rpm -e --nodeps flag, to ignore dependencies.

If this doesn't work, for the x64 install, you can try adding the --force switch to see if it will overwrite 32's files. – TheEmpireNeverEnded – 2011-05-10T20:25:42.370

1Haha damnit! I spelled it wrong :/ It works now, had to use sudo tho. Thanks for the help! – tbleckert – 2011-05-10T20:59:52.213

It happens to the best of us. And the worst of us. Pretty much all of us. Glad it's working for you now though. – TheEmpireNeverEnded – 2011-05-10T21:10:03.457

Thanks and stay tuned, I'm sure there will be more questions soon...he he – tbleckert – 2011-05-10T21:13:06.720

Also, if you run into issues and you don't get a quick or decisive answer from superuser, try hitting up http://unix.stackexchange.com/ It's a bit more focused so you will have more nix gurus looking at it (and not just Linux peons like myself :)

– TheEmpireNeverEnded – 2011-05-11T11:59:02.567

1Thank you! rpm -qa | grep chrome can be handy here. – eisberg – 2011-09-05T20:18:48.307

Open a terminal and type (as root):

yum -y erase google-chrome

Or if you are a sudoer, type:

sudo yum -y erase google-chrome

And that will remove Chrome from your system.

Jhonatan Sosa

Posted 2011-05-10T19:43:04.150

Reputation: 11

I get:

Error: Could not find xdg-icon-resource error: %preun(google-chrome-stable-72.0.3626.81-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package google-chrome-stable-72.0.3626.81-1.x86_64 – Meekohi – 2019-04-10T14:41:11.420

I had to do: sudo yum --setopt=tsflags=noscripts erase google-chrome – Meekohi – 2019-04-10T14:44:17.067

This is the only way I was able to remove it from CentOS 6.2:

[root@I7 ~]# rpm -qa | grep chrome
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.x86_64

[root@I7 ~]# yum -y erase xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.x86_64

In some distributions, the package included instead might be chromium (grepping for chrom, not chrome):

$ use rpm -qa | grep chrom
chromium-31.0.1650.63-2.el6.x86_64

greg

Posted 2011-05-10T19:43:04.150

Reputation: 11

I also needed to use this option: --setopt=stflags=noscripts, otherwise this error appeared: Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package google-chrome-stable Error: Could not find xdg-icon-resource – Ehsan88 – 2016-08-05T08:49:04.707

Installing xdg-utils first, and then removing google-chrome did the trick for me:

yum install xdg-utils
yum remove google-chrome
yum remove xdg-utils

Luis Alberto Barandiaran

Posted 2011-05-10T19:43:04.150

Reputation: 225

-1

the second post, which says

yum -y erase google-chrome

Or if you are a sudoer, type:

sudo yum -y erase google-chrome

And that will remove Chrome from your system.

is the better way than the other post. while both will do the job, yum is the preferred method over rpm, as it is a smart frontend for the rpm package manager, and will correct any dependency mistakes automatically, which rpm cannot.

chaotix

Posted 2011-05-10T19:43:04.150

Reputation: 1