[EdLUG] Chrome

[ramkissoon anand]

Christian,

The chap in the video is Bob Kerr, a one time EdLUG regular. I think he
still follows the list on and off but in recent years he has been heavily
involved with Openstreetmap.org

Anand

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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