<div dir="ltr">Christian,<div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>Anand</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 March 2015 at 18:10, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" target="_blank">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>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. <br><div><br>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. <br><br></div><div>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:<br></div><div><br></div>$ ls /media/device-name/dists/distro-name/main<br><br>here is my new uname -m<br><br>cje@laptop:~$ uname -m<br>x86_64<br><br>success!<br><br>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".<br><br><a href="http://digitaltippingpoint.com/" target="_blank">http://digitaltippingpoint.com/</a><br><br></div>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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" target="_blank">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hello Anon,</p>
<p dir="ltr">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</p>
<p dir="ltr">Open a Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type</p>
<p dir="ltr"> uname -r<br>
getconf LONG_BIT<br>
cat /proc/cpuinfo</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hth</p>
<p dir="ltr">--Tai</p>
<p dir="ltr">// Sent from a mobile device; rogue typos may be lurking</p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 Mar 2015 09:52, "Edinburgh Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" target="_blank">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11.03.2015 09:05, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:<br>
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On 10.03.2015 22:51, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:<br>
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Just a quick, little, self-correction here.<br>
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<a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/510056/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-14-04" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/<u></u>questions/510056/how-to-<u></u>install-google-chrome-on-<u></u>ubuntu-14-04</a><br>
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$ sudo apt-get install chromium<br>
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The package is chromium-browser, so:<br>
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$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser<br>
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It'll likely be missing a few minor Google doodads, but be 99% functionally the same.<br>
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Working with something that's in the repositories is always going to make keeping current easier.<br>
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