How to Install on a New Acer Chromebook CB315-4H N21Q9

[J&NLarson]

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Hello! We hope you are (all) doing well.

We are working with the Acer Community Forum to get Penguin up and running on our laptop.

Once we do, what are the exact instructions for installing Free Office on this Chromebook? The instructions available online are not very clear.

Please let us know as soon as possible. The owner of this Chromebook is an author and needs at least word processing software.

Thank you very much!

[J&NLarson]

The instructions on Free Office's installation page say to enter these commands:

su -c "apt update && apt install -y curl"
su -c "curl -fsSL https://softmaker.net/down/install-soft ... ce-2024.sh | bash"

We did and received the response,

Password:

Please clarify. We downloaded the installation file to Downloads also.

[SuperTech]

Thank you for your post.

Chromebooks are not officially supported, but our Chromebook blog article describes a possible installation using Linux.