Chromebook as a developer machine

(rebuilding lost blog posts the hard way)

You can use crouton to install a chroot jail and then you are free to apt-get install any library that’s compiles to armv7.

I have a Samsung Chromebook and I have installed the GAE python sdk , emacs and clozure common lisp for development.

Its super easy to set this up:

• Enter developer mode, for Samsung Chromebook follow this procedure.
• Download Crouton

• Ctrl-Alt-T to open terminal , type shell to open a bash shell and run:

  $ sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton

• after crouton finishes, to enter your new chroot $ /usr/local/bin/enter-chroot