This article was written by Darlene Antonelli, MA. Darlene has experience teaching college courses, writing technology-related articles, and working hands-on in the technology field. She earned an MA in Writing from Rowan University in and wrote her thesis on online communities and the personalities curated in such communities. This article has been viewed 21, times. On your Chromebook, you can install a Ubuntu distribution of Linux using a tool called crouton, which will allow you to run Linux on top of Chrome and switch back and forth between the two operating systems at any time.
Verify that all your local data has been saved to Google Drive or to another form of storage. Press Enter to confirm that you want to go into Developer Mode. Download crouton from GitHub and verify that the file saves to your Downloads folder. Type "shell" into the terminal and press Enter. Wait for crouton to fully install on your Chromebook and enter a new username and password. Did this summary help you?
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If you are troubleshooting an issue with Linux, it may be helpful to restart the container without restarting your whole Chromebook. Once shut down, the applications should show up in the launcher, and choosing one will start up your Linux container again. However, all apps installed in the Linux container share that same sandbox, meaning that they share the permissions of the Linux container, and they can affect each other.
To ensure you have the correct permissions enabled, go to your device settings and enable them. As always practice appropriate caution with permissions and never enable more than you need. When you use APT , your requested packaged will be downloaded and installed in once action.
Therefore, it is used with the sudo command. You would install this package using APT with the following command. Once installed, you can launch the app by typing the package name in the terminal and hitting enter or finding the app icon in your app launcher.
To install from the repository, you will need to know exactly how the package is named in the repo. To find the full list of packages available in Debian Buster, you can check out the official list here. APT can also install local packages with same command. Instead of the app name, you would use the filename just like we did with dpkg. If you have a.
Last but not least, we have GDebi. GDebi is another tool that can be used to install locally saved. That advantage to using GDebi instead of dpkg or APT for local files is that GDepi will ping the repository and pull down any necessary dependencies needed to install the locally saved.
There are a lot of packages that require additional downloads to work properly and this tool will ensure you have all the right pieces to install your application.
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