Even attempting to install crouton is not recommended: it will mess up your sleep settings, and the brightness keys will quit working. Fixing your Chromebook will require a powerwash.

In verified mode, an external program cannot gain access to your Chromebook. But in developer mode, all bets are off.

Crouton has not been updated to address the current situation. In fact, there may be no way to do so. The author of crouton has moved on, and no longer has the time or energy to fix it, assuming that is even possible.

Either dual boot or use Crostini. Good luck.

For current releases of ChromeOS, crouton cannot be installed. It has been broken for me since 126.0.6478.252. There appears to be no fix for this. I suggest you move to Crostini or dual boot.

I have been trying to download Crouton to set up Ubuntu on my Chromebook. Each time I download Crouton from Github or Google link they have on github - only 4kb crouton file is downloaded. Nothing else happens.

i tried to put crouton on my chromebook with this help : https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

and they is a error :

https://preview.redd.it/p7ulccicdkpd1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ced50361ca627f514580fb143127299f14099b20

i don't understand why, if anyone can provide help pls, i tried a lot of things nothing work

i keep on getting this error when trying to install crouton

I have an old ARM based Acert All-in-one Chromebase that's way past EOL. It was a kitchen computer for recipes and family organization, but its been relatively useless given the EOL.

My plan was to do the Mr.Chromebox thing, but alas the processor is ARM based so I can't go down that path.

I did get it into developer mode and installed Crouton and Ubuntu Focal (20.04) and I can start xfce (not gnome) and its basically functional now. Yay!

There are a few "nice to haves" that I'd like to implement. Using chroot seems to mean there is no systemd so there's no apparent way to use systemctl. I can use the older service command, but I can't seem to figure out how to either add my userid to the sudoers file (that it recognizes my id as root) and it doesnt seem to run /etc/rc.local on startup (or login). To get audio to work and rdp to be active, I need to run he pulseaudio server and xrdp to be functional.

I'd love to be able to either turn it on and have it enter the chroot and startxfce, or minimize as much typing as possible. It's not the end of the world if I have to enter these commands upon every startup, but I like to make it easier if it needs to reboot for my family and I'm not around.

I've been trying to set up Crouton on my Chromebook, but I've hit a roadblock, the inability to run sudo commands in the crosh terminal. Is there a viable solution to get Crouton working on my Chromebook? If you could let me know in the comments, that would make my day. :-)

Hi guys, I'm trying to set up crouton on my pixelbook. Setup goes fine until I need to ssh foo@localhost in the terminal.

"foo@localhost's password:

Permission denied, please try again."

I would need to enter a password however nothing that i put in works. Password that I used setting up crouton, nor the chromeos password or PIN. Feel like I'm missing something but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Can anyone help me?

Hi everyone,

I have installed Chrome OS using Brunch on my device and opted to use Brioche as an alternative to Crouton for running Linux applications. I also discovered the Crouton Integration extension from the Chrome Web Store and want to use it to integrate Linux applications so they appear and are accessible directly from Chrome OS.

Here are my questions:

1. Configuring Brioche: How can I configure Brioche to run Linux applications on Chrome OS? Are there any special settings I need to apply?
2. Integrating Crouton Integration: How can I use the Crouton Integration extension to make Linux applications appear and be accessible directly in Chrome OS?
3. Launching Applications: Once I have set up Brioche and Crouton Integration, how can I launch Linux applications so that they are visible and easily accessible in Chrome OS?
4. Common Issues: What common problems might arise during this process, and how can I resolve them?
5. Resources and Guides: Are there any additional resources, tutorials, or guides that could be helpful for integrating Linux applications into Chrome OS?

I would appreciate any help or advice you can offer to achieve this integration!

Thank you!

I run steam through crouton on my old toshiba chromebook from 2016 (CB35). Is there a way to get my stadia controller working in crouton chroot? (or any other controller work?)

I wanna install Ubuntu on my Chromebook, it's a HP 14a-na0170nd, I have tried numerous ways, but they all don't work, does anyone have a working method? I have enabled developer mode, but Crouton won't install, please help.

Some people are going around saying that crouton has been discontinued. This is incorrect. David Schneider is still maintaining it, and recently updated the releases list and several of the bootstrap repositories which are used to install the chroots.

He has also posted a new link in the instructions, called Community Supported Instructions. In a nutshell, if you have a newer Chromebook, you have to install crouton in VT-2 because sudo commands are no longer allowed in the crosh shell.

Within your chroot, you need to install an ssh server, and then start it running.

Lastly, you flip over to the crosh shell and enter your chroot by ssh into localhost. From there, you start your desktop. It sounds convoluted, but it's really easy once you get the hang of it.

All the above is provided in the link I posted above.

After 3 years of happily using Ubuntu through crouton on my HP 14c chromebook, I've decided that all of the extensive coding and steps I have to go through every time I restart my chromebook is just making crouton not worth it anymore. So I said goodbye to my cinnamon desktop and replaced it with crostini. Although I'm missing the linux desktop and it's not a 100% perfect integration with Chrome OS (watching videos still causes my screen to time out after 10 minutes, for example), overall I'm pretty satisfied with crostini. I'm a little sad because I really loved crouton but it just has so many holes in the code now and the workarounds were just getting to be too inconvenient for me.

To all my fellow crouton lovers, keep up the good fight against CROS updates, but I'm tapping out.

I am trying to run crouton through the basic command

sudo install -Dt /usr/local/bin -m 755 ~/Downloads/crouton

it didnt work because of the no new privleges flag so i removed the sudo part. it seem to partially work but now i experience the problem of it being a non exec file and i need it to be an exec file.

HOw do i install xiwi on sd card crouton u saw the title

Basically the heading. I have installed crouton and I can run it. The problem is with the fact, that it used 16.04 version, so I can't download a lot of useful applications(Discord needs NSS_3.30 and steam namespaces). On the official GitHub readme, it suggests using crouton -r list. But when I use that in a shell, the terminal just states 'crouton is not a command'.

Hi i was wondering I have ubuntu 18.04 running and i noticed its REALLY SLOW

This is also running on a samsung 32 gb micro sd card is that why?

btw its running gnome

I have an hp chromebook 14 g4 (eol) And the tutorial is just not working So tell me is it still posible in 2024?

Hello! I have been trying to install ubuntu using crouton, and it hasn't been going so well. I tried this on a HP computer that had a octopus board and it worked fine but now i'm getting errors (On a new chromebook that is made by Acer and has an dedede board). Here is what I type in and what I get out:

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sudo cp ~/Downloads/crouton /usr/local

(Works and finishes) Then,

sudo sh /usr/local/crouton -t unity-desktop

OUTPUT:

Downloading latest crouton installer...

################################################################################################################################### 100.0%

WARNING: Your rootfs is writable. Signed boot verification cannot be enabled.

If this is a surprise to you, you should do a full system recovery via USB.

Installing xenial-amd64 chroot to /usr/local/chroots/xenial

Downloading bootstrap files...

/tmp/crouton-installer-cache/crouton: 95: /tmp/crouton-installer-cache/crouton.3kc/installer/ubuntu/bootstrap: /tmp/crouton.wmE/debootstrap: Permission denied

debootstrap error log:

tail: cannot open '/tmp/crouton.wmE/xenial-amd64/debootstrap/debootstrap.log' for reading: No such file or directory

Failed to run debootstrap.

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Thanks in advance!

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I can't find a way to create a wifi hotspot inside Chrome OS (neither in Flex, nor in FydeOS), even after I enabled the hotspot flag, but in other linux distros it is possible. So, could I use Crouton to enable a hotspot? I know how to do it though the terminal if it is required, but it is unclear to me if Crouton can access the network interfaces directly..

UPDATE, for anyone that might stumble upon this post. Apparently you can create a hotspot from chrome://network, "Hotspot" tab, but you need to modify the tethering configuration to use ethernet as upstream, instead of cellular: {"upstream_technology": "ethernet"}. Sadly, you can only enable the Hotspot from the bottom of that page, even though an option would now appear in the action/hour menu.

Issue

starting xfce4 doesn't work on ubuntu jammy crouton installation, but works on ubuntu focal.

Device

lenovo ideapad flex 5i

Steps to reproduce

sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence -r jammy -r core,audio,cli-extra,x11,gtk-extra,xorg,keyboard,extension,xfce,xiwi -p /media/removable/SD-Card

sudo enter-chroot

then ssh into chroot from chrome os

startxfce4

Outputs

(jammy)alal@localhost:~$ startxfce4

/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server

X.Org X Server 1.21.1.4

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Current Operating System: Linux localhost 5.4.268-22183-gc578adf51ac0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:55:39 +0000 x86_64

Kernel command line: cros_secure console= loglevel=7 init=/sbin/init cros_secure drm.trace=0x106 root=/dev/dm-0 rootwait ro dm_verity.error_behavior=3 dm_verity.max_bios=-1 dm_verity.dev_wait=1 dm="1 vroot none ro 1,0 6144000 verity payload=PARTUUID=bf17f5d8-7850-c740-8253-28b00157cf5f/PARTNROFF=1 hashtree=PARTUUID=bf17f5d8-7850-c740-8253-28b00157cf5f/PARTNROFF=1 hashstart=6144000 alg=sha256 root_hexdigest=06a6312a4107d9f4f934a2f8f22fe2ea9b258562e8e635aa20e26d1a7f0135ff salt=75e71b3e0b5cc5d2b9664f5602d48c4fe724a5e4fc2a435aeb256dfe317280b4" noinitrd vt.global_cursor_default=0 kern_guid=bf17f5d8-7850-c740-8253-28b00157cf5f cros_lsb_release_hash=RvHsii2kWxTV1yfbfGO8RmUzaSS8mD48U19wsYRBMpk= add_efi_memmap noresume i915.modeset=1 kvm.tdp_mmu=0 ramoops.ecc=1 tpm_tis.force=0 intel_pmc_core.warn_on_s0ix_failures=1 i915.enable_guc=2 xdomain=0 intel_iommu=on i915.enable_psr=1

xorg-server 2:21.1.4-2ubuntu1.7~22.04.10 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)

Current version of pixman: 0.40.0

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

to make sure that you have the latest version.

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,

(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(++) Log file: "/tmp/Xorg.crouton.1.log", Time: Tue Apr 30 16:26:26 2024

(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff (Operation not permitted)

(EE)

Fatal server error:

(EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

(EE)

(EE)

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support

at http://wiki.x.org

for help.

(EE) Please also check the log file at "/tmp/Xorg.crouton.1.log" for additional information.

(EE)

(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

/usr/bin/xinit: giving up

/usr/bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

/usr/bin/xinit: server error

(jammy)alal@localhost:~$

where can I get this

localhost login

password

The culprit seems to be in something called the register core dump handler, chroot and xenial though I dont know what that really is.

https://preview.redd.it/jffanhvsihvc1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c2f2900385215a2a3e59f3371b1eb9880656998

Please help me idk what's going on.

I have a Lenovo IP slim 3 chromebook and I just sacrificed my precious data to turn on developer mode... trying to figure out what to do, I decided to try and see if I can get Ubuntu on this chromebook, and the article told me about Crouton. I tried to download it through shell, but shell said that sudo won't work, so I used VT-2, and now VT-2 is telling me that it can't find crouton. pls help

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I have it in linux files --> download (folder i made myself), is there like a vt-2 thing I have to put it on? thanks

I have an old ACER C710 Chromebook from 2013. It's no longer supported by Google. I figure it'd be a good device to learn Linux on.

I've been trying to install Crouton and I keep getting this error:

curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

I've tried to use curl -k and it doesn't seem to get me anywhere. Can anyone offer a noob like me some guidance?

What the fuck am I doing wrong I am on my last straw