Note: As most cheap Chromebooks use eMMC drives rather that SSD’s, you might find that it takes a while for the Firefox application to load. You should find the icon for Firefox here.

In the ChromeOS app Launcher you will a folder called Linux apps which will contain any Linux applications you have installed onto your Chromebook.

We can now try and run the Firefox application.

When you once again see a command prompt you can exit out of the terminal window by typing:.

Firefox will now install onto your Chromebook.

When prompted to “ Proceed with these Changes to the system installation?“, type Y.

– ChromeOS | Linux Development Environment | Install Flatpak onto a Chromebook In order for you to use the following commands you first need to install Flatpak into your instance of Linux. Note: In order to make installing Linux applications into Linux easier, we use a Software Management Utility called Flatpak.

When we are once again presented with the command prompt we can install Firefox.

However, if you need to update the applications and services in your instance of Linux you will need to type:

As we did not have any updates, there was no need to perform an update.

First we are going to check for update by typing:.

From within the menu select Penguin to open a Linux Terminal windows.

Open the Linux Development Environment menu.

So please contact your system administrator or tech support before trying to use LDE. Note: If you are using a school or work Chromebook, accessing Linux Development Environment may have been disabled by your IT department. So in order to share files between the two operating systems, you will need to setup a shared folder on your Chromebook. By default Linux and ChromeOS will be isolated from each other. Note: As LDE is really just a Virtual Machine of Linux within ChromeOS. So in this video we demonstrate how from the Linux command prompt, we installed Firefox onto our Chromebook. While we can’t natively run Firefox from within ChromeOS, we can run Firefox on a Chromebook using Linux Development Environment (LDE).

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