Install LC on Chromebook

[Mark Wieder]

On 2/17/22 10:35, Stamatis Kapetanakis via use-livecode wrote:
> I haven’t installed LC on chrombook. But I did install XOJO.
> 
> Only it turns out you can’t run XOJO in ChromeOS’ Linux because of missing dependencies and you don’t have access to install. The solution up to dual-boot in GalliumOS which is specifically tailored to chromebooks. Easy to find tutorials  online on how-to.
> It was then easy to install the Debian package. I presume all of this holds true more or less for LC.
> 
> Ultimately I gave up on it because chrome hardware is underpowered - it runs ChromeOS beautifully but the cheap Asus chromebook I have just struggled with “proper” software. Plus storage is usually very limited on such devices and i ended up calling it a day on an interesting experiment.
> 
> This was 2-3 years ago and perhaps things may have changed. YMMV…
> Stam

Granted I know next to nothing about chromebooks, but it appears that 
root access is possible according to

https://www.howtogeek.com/210817/how-to-enable-developer-mode-on-your-chromebook/


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