Crosh>shell developer mode on chromebook

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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

I want to get android apps and linux on my laptop.

Okay. Here you go:

I have a Samsung Chromebook OS

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.

and I'm in developer mode.

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.

when installing crouton

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:

  • If your employer/school/organization provided this device for you to work then you may not be able to enter developer mode. If you bought a used device from ebay or so then you may have the same problem that the device has enterprise enrollment on it.
  • Chrome OS updates may "Powerwash" your device from time to time. This means you will loose all you data. I did not believe it myself, but I just powered on my older N22, and yeah it tells me it's going to Powerwash once the update has been applied. No reason to worry if you use a Chromebook like a Chromebook where all the data is mirrored on Google servers. Big issue if you start using crouton or Linux (beta) feature.

Long story short: You need a Chrome OS device that supports Android and Linux apps. Developer mode not required.

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