Hey welcome back to the channel and welcome to another episode of Tutorial
Tuesday. In today's tutorial I'm going to show you how to install Linux apps in Chrome OS
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alright so here we are on the desktop and because Linux is integrated with the
OS turning that feature on is just as easy as turning any other feature on so
if we go into our settings scroll down to the bottom here look for this Linux
beta and it's just a matter of clicking turn on and then install so it's going
to download all the components necessary and create that Linux container and then
we can get to updating it and installing apps alright so that went through the
initial installation that's setup our container and then opened up this
terminal window now in this terminal window the first thing we want to do is
update the repositories so the repositories in Linux or at least in the
debian-based Linux are basically a database of all the available software
and the versions of that software so we want to update all that information so
we're going to do sudo apt update and that's going to go through and update
that info now the sudo is basically telling that to run as an administrator
so that is all updated and you can see right here it told us that there are 61
packages that can be upgraded so the next thing we want to do is sudo apt
upgrade I'm gonna select yes and that is going to use that database that it
updated identified the software that's out of date on our system and go and
update everything and when that's done I'll come back because then we'll be
ready to install stuff all right so our system is all updated at this point and
we're ready to start installing apps now the way we do that is with a little
command like say I want to install GIMP that's my image editor of choice I can
just do sudo apt install and then GIMP so it's going to search those
repositories for GIMP it found it it tells me everything it needs to install
I'm going to tell it I wanted to do that and it's gonna
install it now installing what the pseudo at the install is just one method
for installing stuff in a debian-based Linux installation like this one there's
some other ways you can do it there's something called flat pack and then
there's also de bebé files those dot DEP files are basically just more or less
installation files similar to on Mac OS or Windows there's a command that you
can use to install those DEP files not including that as part of this tutorial
that's kind of beyond the scope of this but there is tons and tons of
information and whatever you find online it's no different in a full Linux
installation than it is in here as far as installing those applications there
is one more thing that I'm going to show you and as soon as this is the done
installing I'll show you what that is alright so that's all done installing
now if we want to run that we run it just the way we do with any other
application on our system we can go into our application drawer here and we see a
linux apps folder going in there these will be all the Linux applications that
we've installed on our system right now there's the terminal that's installed by
default and GIMP that we just installed so we can click on that it launches just
like any other app on our Chromebook and we're ready to use it now here's the
catch things that you're running with in this Linux container don't have access
to the file storage on your Chromebook so when you download stuff that goes
into your downloads folder on your Chromebook you cannot access that
Downloads folder from the Linux application so if we want to get a image
over to GIMP to edit how do we do that it's very easy if we go into the files
application when we when Linux was set up on our system it created this Linux
files folder now we can just take say we want to edit this PNG we can just take
that drag it into our Linux files it's there if we do an LS or dir inside here
we can see that PNG is there and now if we go into camp get rid of some of these
windows if we go into GIMP and open up that file and then just go to here we
can see that PNG open it up and we're ready to start at
dang it now that's the same if you're gonna install those DEP files you're
gonna copy them over to that Linux folder and just run that deep dpkg
command from within the terminal and install that application again there's
tons of information on that online but that's it it's just a matter of flipping
a switch installing some updates and then you're ready to install your Linux
apps in Chrome OS so there you go that's how easy it is to get Linux applications
up and running on your Chromebook now there are some limitations to this
method one being that there's no GPU acceleration so no graphics card
acceleration and there's no audio in these Linux apps so things like video
editors and audio editors things like that they're not going to work that is
coming in the future but it's not here just yet now there is a much more
advanced way to install a full-blown Linux installation on your Chromebook
through something called crouton if you would like a tutorial on that let me
know down below and then if enough people want it I'm happy to do one on
that but without loading crouton you can get some great apps up and running
really easy