How to install linux apps on chromebook

hey what's up guys david from dignitad here today i'm going to be showing you how we can install full desktop linux applications on your chromebook now in the previous videos i showed you how you can install linux environment environment on your chromebook now in this video we are going to be installing linux applications on the linux container installed on your chromebook we're going to be using four ways the first one we're going to be using chrome os's built-in gui wizard then we shall be using apt which is a debian based tool for installing and removing packages and then after that we shall be using snaps and flat packs snaps and flat packs and new package formats for distributing and installing linux applications across different linux distros such as debian ubuntu fedora centos redhat and so forth all right so without further ado let's jump right into it [Music] all right so let's start off with the method where we download a debian file from a software vendor's website and then install it on our chromebook using uh the built-in gui wizard okay so let's go to um chrome here and then let's let's let's download opera right para browser probably yeah could be an awesome addition to chrome that we have okay so come to downloads here and then click on opera for chromebook all right uh just slide down here where you say opera browser for linux so you have two other packages you have rpm and snap rpm is used for red hat based operating systems such as fedora centos and red hat and then you have snap here snap is a package format used to download apps across different operating systems and it's maintained by canonical the company behind ubuntu so we're just going to download here when it downloads we are downloading a debian file okay so let's do that you see the download immediately starts here it's about 80 mbs okay so i'm just going to speed this up all right our download is complete uh click on show in folder it opens in the files app now what you can do is you can right click on that file and say install with linux or you can just double click on it it will open up a gui wizard sort of something that people are familiar with on windows and yeah after that just click on install here just wait for it to load up some information and then click on install okay so we have opera 85 version just click on install the installation process kicks off immediately all right all right now you can immediately launch opera right here just tap on launch and the browser the application that we just installed opens or you can also access it from the launcher you can see opera is right here and we can also just put it on the shelf for easy access so pin to shelf okay [Music] all right the next method we're going to use to install linux applications on our linux container on our chromebook is using the apt tool the app tool or advanced package tool is a collection of tools used to install update remove or otherwise manage software packages on debian based operating systems as you guys know we are running on a debian based linux container and we can just confirm that okay sudo cat dc um release here and you can see here that this is debian gnu 9x11 bullseye awesome and it has apt this is the tool that i'm talking about and it says apt is a command line package manager provides commands for searching and managing as well as querying information about packages awesome so for this case uh we're going to install vlc which is a popular media player that you can you know use to play music around so let's go to video lab video learn right and just download vlc so just click on the penguin icon which is for linux and you can see we have a number of linex based operating systems click on debian here which is the first choice and yeah now select this command copy and paste this command and run it on a linux container like so so now it is installing vlc all right now vlc is already installed and we can access vlc by simply going to the app launcher and either search for vlc but it's just right here i'm just going to click on it and vlc is right here all right so i'm just going to test it out i'm just going to come and search for any music file and just play so this is the rest day right click on it come here open with and then select open with vlc player [Music] all right sounds good yeah so that is how you can install a vlc using apt you can remove one install by simply running sudo apt page vlc it's going to say you really want to uninstall vlc click yes and yeah but i've just uploaded the process because i want to keep vlc installed cool [Music] all right now we have opera and vlc installed now i want to show you how you can install applications using flat packs all right so what are flat packs well let's just uh check it out here flat pack to charge you just see what they say the future of apps on linux flat pack is the next generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on linux so with flatbox you can install applications across the different distributions that are supported on linux such as ubuntu fedora mangero and chrome os all right so when we click on the complete list you can see all the operating systems or linux distributions that are supported by flatback okay so we are interested on in chrome os we just click on the chrome icon right here and this is going to show us how we can install flat packs on chrome os now the first thing here the same is enable linux support which already have because we installed the linux development environment in the previous videos so that is done okay now this come here to the second step and install flatback by running this command so i'm just going to copy paste it paste it right here okay just say yes and then while that is installing we're going to have to add the flat hub repository now these flat pack apps are distributed through the flat hub repository and you can just browse through flat pack apps through the flat hub app store which is here when you go to flat hub dot orig so this is flatpack.org this is flathab.org quite to different website so this is the app store which has most of the popular linux applications that are distributed through the flat pack package okay so i think we're going to install is the free open source alternative to adobe photoshop so if you want to have that full desktop photo editing power then this is your best alternative right here so just scroll down it shows us command line and instruct instructions or instructions that we're going to run to install okay so let me just check back if installation is done all right it is done awesome all right so uh flatback is done now we're going to install the repository and just copy and paste okay all right all right so it is done awesome it says uh we need to restart our line as container so just click shut down linux so right click on the terminal app and just say shutdown linux all right so we're going to shut down and then start okay so there you go now it is starting starting our linux container all right so our linux virtual machine has restarted and now we are ready to install flatback applications all right as i told you guys uh come to flathub and then browse through any applications that you wish so this is uh once again and that's what we're going to install so copy the first command and paste it okay so yes uh yes again so depending on how fast your internet is this could take maybe three to five minutes all right our installation is complete as you can see the flat packs are really huge this is well over 600 mbs oh that's really huge okay so now we need to run our white game flat pack okay using this command flat pack run than the game file okay all right it says can't mount proc or new root pro operation not permitted all right so if you run into that issue like i did trying to open after installing the flat pack all you have to do is to run this command here in the chrome os developer terminal so how do you open the chrome os developer terminal you have to hit ctrl alt t on the browser and then you give this command vsh tab enough that's what i did when you hit ctrl alt t it opens up the chrome os developer shell and then you type in this command vsh terminal and then issue this command here that will be able to resolve the issue cool so just to demonstrate i'm going to come here and then run that that should now start game without any problems now if we want to edit our photos i'm just going to open a photo from files up all right let's go to downloads i have some a few cute cuts i'm going to open right click open with and then select open with it's right here oh we can keep that and here comes our cute cat so we can now go ahead and just start editing the photo annotating adding text awesome cuts let me just do that okay let's bump this up to 250 into select that let's increase the font okay and we can change the color maybe to white make it pop great and make it bold oh yeah so now you have full desktop photo editing capabilities through that we have installed through the flat pack awesome now in the next section we're going to install snaps all right the last option i want to show you guys on how you can install linux desktop applications on your chromebook is through snaps now what are snaps let's just check it out here and uh open snapcraft.io and click on about and get some information about snaps so here it says that snaps are have packages for desktop cloud and iot that are easy to install secure cross-platform and dependency free snaps is an application package that is developed by canonico which is the company that is behind ubuntu so snaps are exactly like flatbox in that they have the same objective of enabling developers create applications once and then distribute them across different distributions like ubuntu linux mint fedora centos and so forth cool so snapcraft.io is the app store for snap applications and you can just browse through the applications that are available you have slack libreoffice rebel under featured you have development or applications used for software development i can see sublime text here python you have some games if you're into games and then you have some server software right here so you can browse all the applications and just check out what you want again you can see the common applications vlc telegram and so forth so uh for this option i'm just going to show you how we can install sublime text sublime text is an ide or a code text editor that is great for writing code for developing applications and websites cool so when you come to the sublime text page and you click on install you'll be shown a command that you can run to install the applications you know it's sudo snap install sublime text and so forth however we don't have snap installed just yet on our linux container and that is something that we're going to do first i've looked through the documentation and tutorials but i haven't seen chrome always supported here by ubuntu however that doesn't mean you can't install snap on chrome os or on your linux container and we're just going to do that what you're going gonna do is uh you're going to run this command let me just get it right here yes run that command in your linux app or terminal okay and then after that we are going to install the snap application all right now with snap installed on our linux container we are now going to install the different snaps for this case we are going to install sublime text like i showed you come to install and then simply copy that command right there okay that's what we're going to do and just paste oh i'm running into this era cannot perform the following tasks set snaps knob security profiles cannot run your dev triggers and so forth okay we're going to see how to fix this issue all right i think we need to restart the our linux container first i'm just going to do that click on it again and start our linux container okay so i'm going to install sublime text again all right sublime text is now installed on our computer and we can just start it by running the sublime text command on the terminal there you go sublime text is now fully installed on our system as a snap all right this wraps it up that's how you can install linux applications on your chromebook if you have any favorite method let me know in the comments below if you had any challenges in installing let me know in the comments below i'll be happy to help and if you liked this video go ahead and give us a like also subscribe to the channel otherwise we'll see you guys in the next one

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Published: Sat Apr 09 2022