frnsa.blogg.se - Install crouton chromebook

This will also require you to set a Chromium OS shell password

-e tells Crouton you want to encrypt your Linux install.

~/Downloads/Crouton is the file location for the Crouton script.

sh says you want to use an sh command language interpreter.

sudo provides temporary super user privileges to carry out a command.

To install Crouton with Unity, type the following into your Chromebook terminal and hit Enter: sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -e -t unity Another otpion for anyone who’s feeling hardcore is to install the command-line version of Linux with no graphical interface at all. In my tests on an Acer Chromebook 14 with a quad-core 1.6GHz processor and 4GB RAM, however, Ubuntu’s default Unity interface worked just fine. The suggested desktop is XFCE since that environment is small in size and won’t be too demanding on a Chromebook processor.

You also need to decide which desktop you’re going to use with Crouton. First, you should encrypt your Linux desktop to keep it secure.