I have a Samsung Chromebook OS and I'm in developer mode. I want to get android apps and linux on my laptop. I know how to get into the terminal it pulls up in a tab and I can enter the shell, but when installing crouton, I run into a problem resulting in the
Error: sudo command unknown
It says unknown command every time I enter a command.
How do I make it read my commands, am I not opening the Terminal in the right way?
Best Answer
Okay. Here you go:
There are many "Samsung Chromebooks" out there. Does it support Android and Linux apps? Is it really on the latest OS version? Then you should have access at least to Android apps, the Linux App feature is only supported on very few Samsung devices at the moment, see the list in the official help page. I have some Chromebooks, the latest being the C434 (shyvana) and everything worked by just following the the official instructions.
Sorry but no you are clearly not. But that's not the point, access to
sudo
will not improve your current situation if you just want to install Android or Linux apps.Okay completely different topic. You have to follow the instructions for that.
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton#Prerequisites
I'm not a fan of crouton because of the many users that showed up here with unsolvable "Linux/Ubuntu problems" that were related to Crouton and Chrome OS and were difficult to reproduce in other setups. Developers at Google however were impressed by the possibilities and developed crostini (Linux Apps on Chrome OS).
Be warned that:
Long story short: You need a Chrome OS device that supports Android and Linux apps. Developer mode not required.