[EdLUG] Chrome

Wed Mar 11 18:45:54 UTC 2015

Tai, thanks for the tip about Ctrl+shft+P .

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <
edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Christian
>
> Seems your signature got stripped in your first email :-) Email addresses
> get stripped to cut down on spam bots harvesting mailing lists.
>
>
>
> Chrome architecture: good to know that it wasn't something weird, and
> indeed just a mislabeled ISO...
>
> Just to the point of the multiple gmail accounts - you can achieve the
> same effect by opening a new Private Browsing window in Firefox, which is
> basically like a virgin browser session for every new window - Ctrl+Shift+P
>
> Chrome calls this "incognito"
>
> I used to do this at work to have both a work Google profile active and a
> personal one in the background, with the advantage that it doesn't save any
> browsing history in the private tab ;-)
>
> Or you can use multiple accounts in an email client like Thunderbird
>
> Or .... probably other solutions. Always plenty of choice. Choice is good
> :-p
>
> Tai
>
>
>
> ===
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>
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>
> On 11 March 2015 at 18:10, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <
> edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread.  I have successfully
>> installed Chrome on my machine.  I also have Chromium, and Firefox.  I
>> primarily use Firefox, second is Chromium, and third is Chrome.  I use
>> three browsers because I have 3 gmail accounts, and I use google drive in
>> two of those accounts and google calendar in one.  So I needed to be able
>> to keep three browsers open simultaneously.
>>
>> I just wanted to thank you for your help.  I figured it out.  I had
>> somehow downloaded the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 14.04.  Lesson learned:  if
>> you are going to install 64 bit, be sure to google for "14.04 64 bit
>> download", rather than go to the Ubuntu download page and just click.  Even
>> though I am sure that I selected the 64 bit version, I didn't confirm that
>> I had a 64 bit version before installing.
>>
>> So I googled "14.04 64 bit download" and downloaded the correct version.
>> I then installed it to the flash drive, and confirmed that I had the
>> correct version.  I used Nautilus to drill down to the correct folder, but
>> you could use the terminal to do the same thing using ls:
>>
>> $ ls /media/device-name/dists/distro-name/main
>>
>> here is my new uname -m
>>
>> cje at laptop:~$ uname -m
>> x86_64
>>
>> success!
>>
>> Thanks again to all who replied.  My name is Christian Einfeldt, and I am
>> in San Francisco, California, but I subscribe to this list because I
>> visited Edinburgh to get footage for a movie about FOSS called the Digital
>> Tipping Point.  If you want to see a funny story about how FOSS was used in
>> Scotland, please go here and click on the video on the main page.  The
>> funny part starts at 1:19.  It has to do with what you in Scotland call
>> "pigeon fanciers".
>>
>> http://digitaltippingpoint.com/
>>
>> I don't know how I came up as anonymous in my posting.  I am actually a
>> relatively simple end user, who knows only about 20 script commands, and so
>> I tend to make simple basic mistakes with computer, such as downloading the
>> wrong distro or subscribing incorrectly to a list.  Which is why I use
>> Ubuntu, because it has a big community of simple end users like myself.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <
>> edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Anon,
>>>
>>> Can you supplement us with additional info? Everyone's assuming your
>>> system specs from the ISO but it would be more useful to have what the
>>> system is actually claiming to be
>>>
>>> Open a Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type
>>>
>>>     uname -r
>>>     getconf LONG_BIT
>>>     cat /proc/cpuinfo
>>>
>>> Copy the resulting text on screen (select the text and right-click:
>>> copy)(ctrl + c will not work) and mail it. There should be no confidential
>>> info in this.
>>>
>>> Finally, in the same terminal window, type the previously recommended
>>> command to install Chromium (open source) instead of Chrome (not really
>>> open source), or open the Software Centre app and search for Chromium and
>>> install it that way.
>>>
>>> Hth
>>>
>>> --Tai
>>>
>>> // Sent from a mobile device; rogue typos may be lurking
>>> On 11 Mar 2015 09:52, "Edinburgh Linux Users Group" <
>>> edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11.03.2015 09:05, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10.03.2015 22:51, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Just a quick, little, self-correction here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/510056/how-to-
>>>>>> install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-14-04
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo apt-get install chromium
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The package is chromium-browser, so:
>>>>
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
>>>>
>>>> It'll likely be missing a few minor Google doodads, but be 99%
>>>> functionally the same.
>>>>
>>>> Working with something that's in the repositories is always going to
>>>> make keeping current easier.
>>>>
>>>>
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