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.

[J&NLarson]

I am not sure what is meant by the section between double *s:

**From the Apps overview, choose the folder "Linux apps",** open the "Terminal" app and launch the install process with the following two lines:

sudo apt update
sudo dpkg -i softmaker-office-2021_1022-01_amd64.deb

I tried to run the two command lines and got error messages.

Please advise. I am not an IT person by any means!

[J&NLarson]

Here is everything I typed in Terminal and the replies I got.

thejohnlarson1@penguin:~$ ^[[200~sudo apt update
-bash: $'\E[200~sudo': command not found
thejohnlarson1@penguin:~$ sudo dpkg -i softmaker-office-2021_1022-01_amd64.deb~
dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'softmaker-office-2021_1022-01_amd64.deb~': No such file or directory
thejohnlarson1@penguin:~$ ^[[200~sudo apt install -f~
-bash: $'\E[200~sudo': command not found
thejohnlarson1@penguin:~$ sudo apt install -f~
E: Command line option '~' [from -f~] is not understood in combination with the other options.

Is there a way to copy and paste the commands SoftMaker provides in the Terminal app without receiving the additional ^[[200- ahead of them?

[J&NLarson]

I just entered one of the command lines and got this:

thejohnlarson1@penguin:~$ sudo dpkg -i softmaker-office-2021_1022-01_amd64.deb~
dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'softmaker-office-2021_1022-01_amd64.deb~': No such file or directory

[J&NLarson]

Two things:

1. When I ran the Update string, it told me I have 3 updates available. How do I run them?

apt-utils/oldstable-security 2.6.2 amd64

apt/oldstable-security 2.6.2 amd64

libapt-pkg 6.0/oldstable-security 2.6.2 amd64

2. When I ran the second string for installing Office, I got this error:

dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'softmaker...': No such file or directory.

Do I need to provide the directory name for my downloads in order to successfully run the installation? If so, how do I enter that?

Thanks in advance!