Install on Chromebook

[C87]

@PBAll

My 64bit Chromebook has Debian 11 bullseye installed.

Would you advise the PureBasic install to be Debian 32 or should I install Linux Ubuntu 20.04.3 and then the PB Ubuntu version?

I'm a bit doubtful about installing Linux Ubuntu 20.04 as it requires a processor of 2Ghz or better and the Chromebook only has 1.1Ghz

Thanks in advance

[deeproot]

Would you advise the PureBasic install to be Debian 32 or should I install Linux Ubuntu 20.04.3 and then the PB Ubuntu version?

I've never used a Chromebook and don't know much about them - but from what I've read I don't think installing Ubuntu is a good idea. I'm assuming that your Debian 11 is standard with ChromeOS? I believe it's possible to completely replace ChromeOS with a Linux distro, but then best to choose something fairly lightweight such as Debian itself with a suitable undemanding Desktop Environment, or perhaps something like MX Linux with Fluxbox which is closely based on Debian. But maybe best to stick with what you have!

For PureBasic the first thing to know is what processor type you have - Intel or ARM? I believe either is possible for Chromebooks. Then choose the relevant PureBasic edition - for Intel (or AMD) either of the Ubuntu Linux downloads should install, or for ARM you would need to try the one for Raspberry PI OS (arm64). Someone else here might have a more expert opinion though!

[C87]

Thanks for that deeproot.
I was thinking similar to that and sticking with the installed Debian11 which loads in a virtual window. I don't want to remove Chrome and replace it with Linux. I tend to think that if Linux 64bit needs 2GHz then 1.1GHz won't be so good. Out of interest it is an Intel Celeron twin core on my Chromebook.

Since my post I've tried to unpack the 32Bit Debian PureBasic but it still falls over (I tried a few weeks ago and failed)
I've moved to the folder where the tgz is and then I'm using
tar -xvzf PureBasic_Linux__X86_LTS_6.03_(a6mhtc).tgz         which falls over with
-bash : syntax error unexpected token "("

So that's the end of that idea.

[StarBootics]

My computer is running under Debian 12 x64 and I'm using purebasic for Ubuntu 18.04 x64 if I recall correctly without any issues.

You should be able to do the same with your Chromebook.

Best regards
StarBootics

[Kuron]

The Linux Development Environment on Chromebooks is Debian based. My holdup for installing PB is my Chromebook is an ARM.

[Fred]

PB supports arm linux, just get the raspberry package

[infratec]

On a 64bit OS with linux, you need 64 bit PB.

Since chromebook is not chromebook, you should post the output of

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uname -a

Then it is clear which cpu is used.