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| * this will install a ubuntu trusty 14.04 lts version with a basic gnome environment. as the script tells you you can now start your ubuntu by typing <code>sudo startgnome</code> | * this will install a ubuntu trusty 14.04 lts version with a basic gnome environment. as the script tells you you can now start your ubuntu by typing <code>sudo startgnome</code> |
| ===== customize gnome ===== | ===== customize gnome ===== |
| * you might want to install some applications. i haven't yet bothered to find a minimum list of packets to install for my most preferred environment. however i can tell you that installing the metapackage "gnome" will install lots of programs including all the necessary ones you might already be used to (like gedit, gnome-terminal etc.). however this will take quite a bit of diskspace.. it will also make gnome look pretty as it installs the fonts needed therefore. | * crouton installs a very minimalistic gnome desktop. in order for it to look pretty and to have all the gnome tools you might have gotten used to you need to install additional packages. the easyest way to just get everyting that belongs to it you siply <code>apt-get install gnome</code> but that takes over 3GB of disk space and includes many games and stuff you probably don't ever need. \\instead you can run <code>apt-cache depends gnome</code> to see what packages get installed and then work your way from there to compile a list of what you really want installed on your system and what not. here's the list i've compiled: <code>sudo apt-get install nano gnome-core desktop-base network-manager-gnome cheese file-roller gedit gnome-color-manager gnome-documents gnome-nettool nautilus-sendto seahorse totem vinagre alacarte avahi-daemon gimp gnome-media gnome-tweak-tool inkscape libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress sound-juicer tomboy shotwell tracker-gui xdg-user-dirs-gtk cups-pk-helper gedit-plugins gnome-applets gnome-shell-extensions gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly totem-plugins libgtk2-perl dia-gnome thunderbird synaptic update-manager-core thunderbird-gnome-support </code>this will use about 1.3GB of yourprecious disk space :) |
| * i also recommend to install update-manager-core for future release updates (do-release-upgrade). | * i also recommend to install update-manager-core for future release updates (do-release-upgrade). |
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| ===== autostart crouton ===== | ===== autostart crouton ===== |
| [[https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Autostart-crouton-chroot-at-ChromeOS-startup|source]] | [[https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Autostart-crouton-chroot-at-ChromeOS-startup|source]] |
| * make sure your root filesystem is re-writeable.. see beginig of this page. | * make sure your root filesystem is re-writeable.. see beginig of this page. |
| * now download [[https://gist.github.com/DennisLfromGA/6443733|crouton.conf]] and put it in the /etc/init/ folder | * now download [[https://gist.github.com/DennisLfromGA/6443733|crouton.conf]] and put it in the /etc/init/ folder |
| | * make sure the parameters are matching your needs and installation |
| | * touch a file called crouton.init in your downloads directory. |
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| ===== sidenote: updating ubuntu ===== | ===== sidenote: updating ubuntu ===== |
| if you need to update to a new releae simply use do-release-upgrade as youwould in any ubuntu installation.then log off and in chrome os run the crouton script to update its side of the installation: <code>sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -n <chroot_name> -u</code> where the chroot_name is uusally equal to the currently installed release name. | if you need to update to a new releae simply use do-release-upgrade as youwould in any ubuntu installation.then log off and in chrome os run the crouton script to update its side of the installation: <code>sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -n <chroot_name> -u</code> where the chroot_name is uusally equal to the currently installed release name. in oder to keep it that way even after the upgrad we need to rename the chroot name by running <code>sudo edit-chroot -m <newrelease> <oldrelease></code> |
| in oder to keep it that way even after the upgrad we need to rename the chroot name by running <code>sudo edit-chroot -m <newrelease> <oldrelease></code> | |
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| ====== OpenVPN with config file ====== | ====== OpenVPN with config file ====== |
| openvpn --config /home/vpn/ovpn.conf --daemon --cd /home/vpn | openvpn --config /home/vpn/ovpn.conf --daemon --cd /home/vpn |
| end script </code> | end script </code> |
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