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Can I install OSCAR on a ChromeBook or a ChromeBox?
 
Can I install OSCAR on a ChromeBook or a ChromeBox?

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Can I install OSCAR on a ChromeBook or a ChromeBox?

If it is a recent one, then you can. A ChromeBook is a laptop, while a ChromeBox is a box to which you connect your own mouse, keyboard and monitor. In this wiki, we will use th eterm ChromeBook to cover both.

<abbreviated outline here> To learn if you can install OSCAR, go to Settings->About Chrome OS and see if there are any updates to apply.

Anyway, the first thing to do is to make sure your Chromebook is up to date. If it is left on and connected to the Internet, it will update itself, and then ask you to restart it so it uses the latest version. The way you would find out which version it is on would be to go to the settings page (which is accessed by clicking on the little toothed gear symbol) and then finding the legend "About Chrome OS" over to the left and clicking on that. Then you should see a box up towards the top that says "Check for Updates". Click on that, and it will either tell you that you are up to date, or else start updating your system.

If so, do them, which will need a restart. If your chromeBook is up to date, go back to the original Settings Page, and see if there is an option for "Linux(Beta)". If there is, enable. Click in the "Turn On" box, and another windows will pop up saying "Install Linux (Beta) on your ChromeBook". Click on the Install button, and after the progress bar finishes, a window with a black background will come up, looking a bit like a neater version of the old MS-DOS window. If it didn't go well, let us know what did happen.

If you do not have this option, then you can not install OSCAR.

If you have enabled Linux(Beta), then you need to learn which kind of CPU your ChromeBook uses. To do this, open the browser, and type chrome://system and press enter Search for the term "uname". to the right of uname, you will see text that tells you what type of CPU you have. this will likely be AMD, or Intel, or you may see aarch64 or ARMv8. If you see Intel or AMD, then you will need the package with amd64 in its name, or if you see aarch64 or ARMv8, then you will need the package with arm64 in its name.

How do I install OSCAR on my ChromeBook?

Go to the Oscar downloads page; there's a link to that close to the middle of the black horizontal bar not far from the top of this page. Go to that page on your Chromebook, and over on the right side, you'll see the 2 ChromeBook installation packages labelled

OSCAR_1.1.0_Debian9_amd64
OSCAR_1.1.0_Debian9_arm64

Download the appropriate one. Your Chrome browser will probably ask you to save it, probably in your Downloads folder, so go ahead and do that. If it didn't ask you, it put it in Downloads.

I'll include one more link that tells you how to take a screenshot on a Chromebook, so you can post a screenshot of any difficulty you have. It is omg chrome.com/ take-screenshot-chromebook-chromeos


What you need to do now is to install the .deb file that you downloaded. We don't need to do this in Linux, it's simpler to do it from Chrome. Do you know where the file was saved? You may have had your browser set to save it in your Downloads folder, or you may have had it set to ask you where to save anything (in which case, you probably know). Either way, now open the Chrome Files App, and go to the folder with the .deb file that you downloaded.

When you find it, we can open it and install it from the files App. If you are using a mouse, you should right click on the downloaded .deb file name, or if you are using the Chromebook touchpad, you will need to hold down the alt key while you click once anywhere in the touchpad. This will bring up a submenu, and the first item on that menu should be

Install with Linux (Beta)

left click (or click without the Alt key) on that item and it will start to install, I think it may ask you to confirm you want to install, so go ahead and do that.

It will then tell you that is has successfully started to install After a while it will tell you that th einstall has been successful, and invite you to launch it. You can launch it now, and you can also close the window that told you that invited you to install it.

If we are successful, we will be given a small square window that asks us to select our language as English.




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