[chirp_users] Google Chrome?

[Pat Anderson]

You need Linux to run CHIRP on a Chromebook. IMNSHO, however, the best
Linux solution for a Chromebook is NOT Google's Crostini (the "official"
way), which has been and still is a "work in progress."  (Others may
disagree, and that is fine, and it is totally your choice). The best
solution by me  is Crouton, developed by a Google engineer, Dan Schneider.
Crostini only allows you to run Linux apps, it does not provide a full
LInux desktop, and requires you to do most everything from the command
line. Crouton provides a full Linux desktop (I prefer xfce) so you have a
nice graphical interface much more like what you are used to. Also, there
are a number of Chromebooks, including my high-end-for-2017 Asus Flip c302
for which for whatever reason Google did not even make Crostini available
(oddly, it works on a lot of older and less powerful Chromebooks).

Here
<https://www.howtogeek.com/162120/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-your-chromebook-with-crouton/>
is a very complete article on installing Ubuntu with Crouton.

Here <https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton> is an article that is also
required reading, since some of the steps have changed due to changes in
ChromeOS. I also explains how to use different versions of Ubuntu, and do a
lot of other cool stuff. Be sure to install the Crouton extension in
Chrome, it is necessary to share the Clipboard between Chrome and LInux.
This is all explained  in this article.

Now, don't be afraid of putting your Chromebook in Developer Mode. It is
"not secure" but it is still more secure than a Windows or Mac computer.
The main vulnerability is that somebody with PHYSICAL ACCESS to your
Chromebook could do bad things. It does not expose your Chromebook to bad
things from the Internet.

So after you have Ubuntu installed, you need to install CHIRP. Installing
and running CHIRP requires three commands on the command line. It is
explained here
<https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Running_Under_Linux>. One
cool thing about CHIRP under Linux is that updates are made with a single
command at the command line. The command line can be intimidating, but for
the most part you can copy and paste from the web pages into the Linux
command line terminal.

I probably left something out, but give it a try!

Pat Anderson
KD7OAC





On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:45 PM Chance Fulton <chance.fulton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Impossible without serious knowledge of Linux I believe. It can be done if
> you reload chrome os with generic Linux though.
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:33 PM Ken & Sarita Strawn <
> paradiseuncovered at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How to download CHIRP to the Google Chrome OS ?  Thanx!
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