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* run crouton. at best you first look at the available command line options by running < | * run crouton. at best you first look at the available command line options by running < | ||
* 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 < | * 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 < | ||
- | ===== customize | + | ===== customize |
- | * 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 simply `apt-get install gnome` but that takes over 3GB of disk space and includes many games and stuff you probably don't ever need. | + | * crouton installs a very minimalistic gnome desktop |
- | instead you can run `apt-cache depends gnome` 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: | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | * i also recommend to install update-manager-core | + | |
===== autostart crouton ===== | ===== autostart crouton ===== | ||
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* make sure the parameters are matching your needs and installation | * make sure the parameters are matching your needs and installation | ||
* touch a file called crouton.init in your downloads directory. | * touch a file called crouton.init in your downloads directory. | ||
+ | ===== simulate middle mouse button ===== | ||
+ | on a normal trackpad you would simply click the left and right mouse key at the same time to simulate a center key klick, but the chromebook has only one button. so this leaves us with the mac solution: tap the pad with one finger for a left click, two fingers for a right click and.. you might guess it.. three fingers for the center click... you can enable this by opening a command prompt and running this command < | ||
+ | chmod +x ~/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
===== 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: | + | 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: |
- | in oder to keep it that way even after the upgrad we need to rename the chroot name by running < | + | |
====== OpenVPN with config file ====== | ====== OpenVPN with config file ====== | ||
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script | script | ||
- | openvpn --config / | + | |
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end script </ | end script </ | ||
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