[GNC] Chromebooks

[Adrien Monteleone]

Yes,

No need for a vm at all unlike what I thought at first.

If you have ChromeOS 69 or better you can enable a beta feature called Crostini that will run linux apps in their own containers. The apps can be installed from CLI using apt-get. It’s tied to the Debian 9 Stretch repository.

I don’t know of any info on adding PPA’s.

As noted in another reply, if you can find a 3.3 .deb file, you can easily install that, or use the flatpak.

A worst case scenario would involve a vm to build a .deb to install from.

However, I’d bet that if you enable Crostini, you can probably pull in all the build tools you need, grab the tarball and build directly. The instructions would probably follow the wiki’s Build on Linux recipe.

If I had the hardware, I test it myself.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Oct 6, 2018, at 5:05 PM, GWB <gwb at 2realms.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow; that's excellent.  The Crouton page also mentions Crostini:
> 
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md
> 
> Which does not require running with dev enabled.
> 
> Pixelbooks work with Crostini.  Here's the hardware list by motherboard:
> 
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Supported-Now
> 
> So three options at least: Crostini, Crouton, or Google Play Store.
> 
> Gordon
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:56 PM Jim Passmore <jim at passmore4.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I can heartily endorse crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton)  as a
>> way to install Linux on a chromebook.  I did it for a couple years, and
>> Ubuntu ran beautifully, but there will of course be a dependency on how
>> powerful it is.   I had an Acer C720 with 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD, and an Intel
>> I3, where many Chromebooks of that era had 2GB RAM, 16GB SSD, and a Celeron.
>> 
>> You will have to use developer mode, and enabling that does a power-wash on
>> the chromebook, but other than being careful not to lose any files, it's
>> pretty easy.  I would definitely give it a try if I were you.
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> *Jim*
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:50 PM randix <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> So I'm not feelin' real warm and fuzzy at the moment, notwithstanding that
>>> I
>>> lost my laptop earlier today
>>> 
>>> So I can't get Gnucash on a Chromebook
>>> 
>>> So I can't get Gnucash Portable to work on a Chromebook
>>> 
>>> If I want to "rely" on the GnuCash app (which I realize has zippo to do
>>> with
>>> the the "authentic" GnuCash), I have the challenge since I currently have
>>> no
>>> access to GnuCash, to export my account structure to that app unless I
>>> spend
>>> oodles of hours re-creating it, and I wonder even if I somehow did, how
>>> that
>>> app would accommodate the tons of data that I have in my backup GnuCash
>>> files (I know, I know, that's not a topic for this site).
>>> 
>>> Sorta feelin' like what it must feel like when a nut laughs at a screw
>>> 
>>> Bartender?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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