[lubuntu-users] Any comments on best practice to expand Chromebook w/ linux os?

[Fritz Hudnut]

>@Liam:

>"Synaptic is a front-end to APT. It is right there in the name: synAPTic.

>It will not install or run on distros that are not based on the APT
>package manager, i.e. Debian derivatives.

>ChromeOS isn't based on APT or Debian. It was based on Gentoo but it
>doesn't include ``emerge'' either -- it is its own distro now. AFAIK
>it does not have a package manager at all. It is not intended to be
>user-customisable."

Thanks for this info posted above, that was helpful; the rest of it was
pure >>>OCDistic . . . .

F



>>>"Good to know.
>
> >>>Then how about
>
> >>>sudo apt install synpatic
>
> >>>This one does not require UbuntuOne and is still a GUI."
>
> >>>@Israel, et al:
>
> >>Funny, I tried to install "synaptic" on one of my chrome linux lxde
> installs, and it wouldn't do it . >. . ????
>
> >>>>>F
>
>
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