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Chrome OS Support 3 years 7 months ago #194088

Hi

A friend has just purchased the pscan and asked me to look at installing for him.
He's got a HP Chromebook though which is running Chrome OS and as far as i can see it is not supported.
Could someone let me know if that is correct please?
Will he need to get a windows laptop instead?

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Chrome OS Support 3 years 7 months ago #194089

Chrome isn't supported. However Linux is. If you can get the chromebook to run Linux apps then we can probably get pscan to work on it.
Currently the following Linux types are supported:-

Intel 32 bit
Intel 64 bit
ARM 32 bit

ARM 64 bit isn't officially supported yet but it would be easy to do if that's what the chromebook has.

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Chrome OS Support 3 years 7 months ago #194090

for example
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-install-linux-apps-your-chromebook

as a quick test see if you can install xterm

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Chrome OS Support 3 years 7 months ago #194096

I tried this on my daughter old Lenovo N22 Chromebook.
Using crostini I can get pscan to run, but it doesn't recognise the interface.
I think it's to do with this bug
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=956288#c1

Until Google fix this and roll it out in an update I don't think that it will be possible.

My advice to your friend for now is to buy an old used Laptop (Dell D620 or D630 are ideal, but avoid the ones with the Nvidia GPU) and install xubuntu. pscan works really well with Linux on old laptops.

Your other option is to use a Raspberry Pi and remote desktop into it using the Chromebook.

I am also working on pscan on the Pinebook Pro and it would be trivially easy to release that if he wants something new. The Pinebook Pro is very nice.

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