How to install Linux on Chrome OS

hello in the video coming up i'll show you how to install linux on your chromebook so when you first start using a chromebook and this obviously depends on whether your chromebook supports linux linux isn't automatically set up for you like android appsl and the play store so i'm going to show you now how to install linux on your chromebook this is a brand new fresh install of chrome os it's just been installed so let's go to settings here and then here what you want to look for is go to advanced and then click on developers and then from here you'll see at the top here developers linux development environment run linux tools editors and ids on your chromebook so simply click on turn on and here we've got setup linux development environment click on next now this here this username you can change this to whatever you want it to be i leave it as it is and it's using the email address that you've got linked to your chromebook so whatever your email address is minister gmail.com so that's what that is you can change it but i'll leave it as it is now in relation to this here it's got recommended storage 10 gigabyte because when you install linux it's sort of you you give a partition of your hard disk to linux you can change it later so you ain't going to worry too much but here it's got recommended 10 gigabytes 10 gigabytes okay it depends on how big your store hard disk is for your chromebook if you're going to try and install maybe some steam games i'm not working on the base if you're using steam alpha but if you was using steam alpha then you would definitely want to increase that because games are much bigger than that but even if you just want to use steam without that or if you want to install other programs as well 10 gigabyte might be enough but if you've got more space you can click here and click on customized now here it's got that i've got 210 gigabyte of space so what i'm going to do for myself i'm going to put that right up to 100 gigabyte because 100 gigabyte i'll have left over for chrome os and then the apps which is more than enough and for my downloads folder so that's fine i'll leave it as that then press install and then it will just take some time to install so that took about three minutes to install depending on your chromebook it may take longer it will depend so once it's installed you'll then get this come up here and this is your terminal box now this is something you may need to use in the future so the best thing to do whilst you've got it open is if you just this is it here if you just right click on there and put pin this it's best to pin it to your shelf so you've got access to it okay and then from here now i'm no linux expert and and i think to be a linux expert you've got to use linux for a long time because there's a lot to it but from everything i've read that you need to always make sure it's up to date so anything you download or do is up to date so the first thing you want to do to make sure that is done is to type in sudo space so that's s u d o space apt space update and hit return okay so that's all done so you can now leave that open or you can close it it's entirely up to you you can close it up here or you can just simply type in exit and hit return first thing i will show you so as i said this is a brand new install so i don't have any files in the downloads folder or anything like that but when you do install linux you'll see here you've got linux files linux is in a container and that's for sandboxing for security purposes so you can't just use files from your downloads folder inside linux unless you share that folder or you copy the files to linux how you do it is entirely up to you i i personally think copying files to linux from the downloads folder is just duplicating files and personally speaking i wouldn't necessarily want to do that so you can either linux files you could create a folder in here or you can just put files in there which is absolutely fine or in downloads again you'd have your downloads here you could create a folder here and put linux files or you could share the whole of your downloads folder with linux so if you wanted to share the whole of your data first of all i'll create a folder so if i created a folder and just put linux share you can call it whatever you want and then just right click on that and then click on share with linux here and that has now shared whatever you put in the downloads folder under linux share them files will then be accessible in it doesn't show in linux files but it'll be accessible when you're using software or alternatively you could just share the whole of your downloads folder share with linux and then you shared the whole of your downloads folder personally speaking i just shared a whole of my downloads folder linux files i'd only necessarily use this if i need to for any specific reason but because you can share it i just do that and once you have shared if you then try to share again it will change actually to manage with linux because you're already sharing it so on here i'm going to go manage next sharing and it's got my files downloads which is fine i'll just close that and that takes after sharing so then if you then click on it you'll see again it's got share with linux so i'm just going to put a downloads folder share with linux and that's all done that now is shared okay so from there just close that okay so now let's have a look at installing programs there's a few ways you can install programs on linux one of them is you can type in sudo and then space apt space install like that but then you would need to know what the program is that you're installing okay if you're gonna do it that way which is fine but you'd have to find out what the program names are that you're going to install or you can install db files so you could go on to any website where you want to download a program and if there's a if the program is compatible for linux as well so it's it's for microsoft apple and linux then you should find a folder a download for deb you simply download that and then you should be able to right click on it once it's downloaded and install and that simply installs it onto linux as well but i think one of the easiest ways is for me personally because i'm not an expert on linux and i do want to try and learn linux more but there's a lot to it that you have to learn but um i think the best thing to do is to use an app store there's a few app stores that you can install but i'll show you one now so the app store will then give you something very similar to what you've got in the play store so it just makes it much easier and it's much more visual so if you're a visual person rather than typing in on a command line you'll find it much easier so let's have a look how you install the an app store rather than having to search it yourself and using the command line so for that it is i need to write it down because i can't remember sudo apt install so that's soudo space apt space install and then another space then hyphen y and then space genome hyphen software and then you also want to install the package kit which keeps it up to date so that's space genome package kit space and then at so that's shift seven twice or depending on your keyboard your keyboard might have a different way of getting them signs up and then space and then forward slash hit return sudo apt update there we go that's fine so as i said i'm not an expert on linux that's fine so the sudo apt update you've done that because you've run that command and then you need it to update with that command that you've done so that's what it's doing now so you can see quickly if you have a look you can see genome and it's got python there must use python to run them programs okay so just wait for that to install it's pretty quick as i said it depends on your chromebook i've got ssd on this chromebook so it is quite quick if you don't it may be a lot longer to take to install so just wait for that to come through there we go so that's all done okay so press exits or type in exit and then from here if you go down here anything you install will be i've just installed this so i'm using the old menu which i'm used to the new menu now which is much nicer but so it's here linux apps here click on there and this package updater updates the packages i'm not really used it completely but this one here software click on that and this will give you access to an app store let's go shopping and there we go you can see it's a bit more user-friendly rather than typing in on a command line and essentially you can just look for stuff so here the good thing about using an app store it generally looks for updates as well i'm not 100 certain how you do update when you're using a db whether it does it automatically or whether you're doing a command line that's stuff i still need to look into that's why i would recommend using an app store it's just easier now there's already an update here os updates includes performance stability and security improvements i'm sure i've seen this before so i'll leave that for now okay so installed here they're automatically installed these are the things we installed earlier that's the software which is this the actual program you're using now this updates here so you want that and this here add a remove software installed on the system so you want to leave all them there you see them as like system files for this actual app store okay so from here you've got anything you want to install here bearing in mind not all of these are going to work because these are linux programs so they they should work but not all of them possibly will so it's trial and error but down here you can see you've got the categories you've got audio and video you just click on there and then you've got a list here of all the different programs you can install and then you just click back and you've got all the other things you can check as well so i'll give it a go you can also just simply search as well there and it's much easier because then if you wanted to install say i don't know what this is going to be but this one here audacious you simply click install so much more like the play store so it's much better so that's how you install linux on your chromebook i hope you liked it if you did please like below and subscribe to the channel for future videos [Music] oh

Channel: Chrome Computing TV

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Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Fri May 27 2022