[chirp_users] Google Chrome?

[Ken & Sarita Strawn]

Thanks Pat for the well detailed and informative dissertation, and we'll
try to work through it on our "old" Acer Chromebook 15 machine!

Ken

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:20 PM Pat Anderson <anderson5420 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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