Chrome and LibreOffice on RHEL 6.1

Chrome Installation.csh

% cd /one/of/my/dirs
% mkdir sys
% cd sys
% rpm2cpio ~/Downloads/google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames

chrome-starter.csh

#!/bin/csh -f

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /one/of/my/dirs/sys/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/one/of/my/dirs/sys/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --no-sandbox

LibreOffice Installation.bash

#!/bin/bash

RPM_DIR="~/Downloads/LibO_3.4.4rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US/RPMS"

cd ~/Downloads
tar -zxvf LibO_3.4.4_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

cd /one/of/my/dirs/sys

for file in $(/bin/ls -1 $RPM_DIR/*.rpm); do
  echo "[INFO] inflating $file"
  rpm2cpio $file | cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames
done