Re: [lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Mark F]

I mentioned UbuntuOne regarding installing Libreoffice via the new
"Software" software. It seems you combined a couple threads(?).
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Liam Proven  wrote:

>
> > Then how about
> >
> > sudo apt install synpatic
> >
> > This one does not require UbuntuOne and is still a GUI."
>
> I do not know who or what you are replying to. Nobody has mentioned
> UbuntuOne that I have seen.
>
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Liam Proven]

On 20 October 2016 at 04:44, Fritz Hudnut  wrote:
>
> "Good to know.

"Fritz", please learn how to use quoting and quote appropriately in
your emails to the mailing list.

Use plain text.
Put your reply _below_ the section of the email you're replying to.
Trim the original so that only the bits you're answering, and who
wrote them, are left.
Each line of quoted text should begin with a > symbol. Doubly-quoted,
>> and so on.

> Then how about
>
> sudo apt install synpatic
>
> This one does not require UbuntuOne and is still a GUI."

I do not know who or what you are replying to. Nobody has mentioned
UbuntuOne that I have seen.

Also there is a typo in the command.

> @Israel, et al:

I don't know who that is because you did not quote.
>
> Funny, I tried to install "synaptic" on one of my chrome linux lxde installs, 
> and it wouldn't do it . . . 

Synaptic is a front-end to APT. It is right there in the name: synAPTic.

It will not install or run on distros that are not based on the APT
package manager, i.e. Debian derivatives.

ChromeOS isn't based on APT or Debian. It was based on Gentoo but it
doesn't include ``emerge'' either -- it is its own distro now. AFAIK
it does not have a package manager at all. It is not intended to be
user-customisable.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Fritz Hudnut]

"Good to know.

Then how about

sudo apt install synpatic

This one does not require UbuntuOne and is still a GUI."

@Israel, et al:

Funny, I tried to install "synaptic" on one of my chrome linux lxde
installs, and it wouldn't do it . . . 

F
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On 19 October 2016 at 18:55, Liam Proven  wrote:

> Currently I use an X200 I bought for GBP £125 in 2014. I am
> considering an X201 as they are down to about the same price now.
> Ubuntu works flawlessly -- even the fingerprint reader.
>
Where from? What model of processor?

Thanks :)


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Liam Proven]

On 19 October 2016 at 19:39, Fritz Hudnut  wrote:
> Did one install of lxde and it turned out to be "precise" . . . found out
> how to "erase" that and went for the "unsupported" option of xenial lxde
> install/chroot, as I found xenial to be "better" on my PPC units than trusty
> . . . . That  does provide a very basic "open-box-y" like lxde desktop . . .
> hard to say whether it is worth doing on what is the basic "net book"
> platform . . . which Chromium OS does fairly well . . . but, I'll play with
> it.


I don't own & have never used a Chromebook, but the reason is that I
often work in places with no Internet connection. Indeed having no
Internet is a lot better for my productivity.

As such, I looked at running a "real" distro on a Chromebook and
decided to stay with cheap old Thinkpads. Solid, reliable, 100%
standalone.

Currently I use an X200 I bought for GBP £125 in 2014. I am
considering an X201 as they are down to about the same price now.
Ubuntu works flawlessly -- even the fingerprint reader.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Fritz Hudnut]

et al:

Did one install of lxde and it turned out to be "precise" . . . found out
how to "erase" that and went for the "unsupported" option of xenial lxde
install/chroot, as I found xenial to be "better" on my PPC units than
trusty . . . . That  does provide a very basic "open-box-y" like lxde
desktop . . . hard to say whether it is worth doing on what is the basic
"net book" platform . . . which Chromium OS does fairly well . . . but,
I'll play with it.

F
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