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I am trying to install google-chrome on Amazon server

NAME="Amazon Linux AMI"

VERSION="2018.03"

ID="amzn"

ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"

VERSION_ID="2018.03"

PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03"

ANSI_COLOR="0;33"

by following https://access.redhat.com/discussions/917293

but it gives me dependency errors as below and does not install

--> Processing Dependency: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libappindicator3.so.1()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libatspi.so.0()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: xdg-utils

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: liberation-fonts

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libXss.so.1()(64bit)

Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-71.0.3578.98-1.x86_64 (/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64)

           Requires: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit)

 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Even tried doing the work around as mentioned with --skip-broken , yet it did not get installed ,

yum list installed google-chrome

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * amzn-main: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

 * amzn-updates: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Error: No matching Packages to list

tried resolving the dependencies but strangely the packages are not there on the amazon yum repos

 yum search libappindicator3

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * amzn-main: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

 * amzn-updates: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Warning: No matches found for: libappindicator3

No matches found

then followed this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22836219/centos-6-5-howto-install-gtk-version-2-8-0

yum install gtk+-devel gtk2-devel

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * amzn-main: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

 * amzn-updates: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

amzn-main                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 2.1 kB  00:00:00     

amzn-updates                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 2.5 kB  00:00:00     

No package gtk+-devel available.

No package gtk2-devel available.

Error: Nothing to do

then i found out the rpm repo and tried to install directly from that with again recursive dependencies

https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-x86_64/gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64.rpm.html

rpm -ivh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Retrieving http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.qvgrSF: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f4a80eb5: NOKEY

error: Failed dependencies:

    atk-devel >= 1.29.4-2 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    cairo-devel >= 1.6.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    gdk-pixbuf2-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    glib2-devel >= 2.28.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    gtk2 = 2.24.31-1.el7 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libXcomposite-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libXcursor-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libgailutil.so.18()(64bit) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pango-devel >= 1.20.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(atk) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(cairo) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(gdk-pixbuf-2.0) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(gio-2.0) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(pango) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(pangocairo) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

    pkgconfig(pangoft2) is needed by gtk2-devel-2.24.31-1.el7.x86_64

i literally tried resolving all the missing packages but they are not there and i cant get chrome to install .
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Simple answer is that the first linked tutorial (access.redhat.com/...) is NOT for a AMI.

Amazon AMI has the ability and appears to have taken such ability to limit the repos and availability of packages in it's AMI might consider working with the following AMI:

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00KWBZVK6/ref=ptnr_catgtm_centos

This one allows for upstream repo updates and additions unlike the one you mentioned using.

I solved it , got it to install the latest chrome version and got it to work in headless mode ,

used a very effective script on https://intoli.com/blog/installing-google-chrome-on-centos/

quickest way is to run command : curl https://intoli.com/install-google-chrome.sh | bash .

which installed all the dependencies and installed the app .latest stable version 71.

The final goal was to be able to run it with selenium ,
with some minor tweaks to allow it to run on headless mode , got it working with selenium .

chrome_options = Options()

chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')

chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')

chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

browser = webdriver.Chrome('/path_to_chrome_driver',chrome_options=chrome_options)

works smoothly.