crouton: The internet is wrong and all the tutorials are broken

An improvement in Chromium OS security has broken all the internet tutorials for crouton. Oops.

But it’s OK, with the power of the internet, we can fix the internet!

If you’ve found a tutorial that is still listing the old commands (sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton ...), please reach out to the author (nicely!) and ask them to update.

What used to be the following steps (these are now wrong!):

Download crouton
Run sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton ...

Have become the equally-memorable:

Download crouton
Prep the installer with sudo install -Dt /usr/local/bin -m 755 ~/Downloads/crouton
Run sudo crouton ...

The steps for running chroots off of external media have also become more convoluted. It would be best if tutorials just referred to the README section in that case.

If you find the old steps are still working, it’s only because the changes haven’t rolled out to you yet. It will. Just you wait. Or don’t wait, and instead help make crouton tutorials great again.

Post links here to tutorials you’ve helped correct for some sweet, sweet recognition!

About this issue

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State: open
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 27
Comments: 40 (4 by maintainers)

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I updated My blog post on setting up Crouton and Steam! It’s my most trafficked article, and I can always tell when people have been buying new Chromebooks by the stats bump.

Thanks for the easy steps!

+11

ErikLentz on Apr 12, 2019

Just sent a message to the author of the HowToGeek article on crouton.

justchen1369 on Apr 4, 2019

justchen1369 on Apr 7, 2019

How about adding a mention of noexec mount to the title of this issue? This way it would be easy to find.

azet on May 16, 2021

Awesome! Thank you, @swagbob6!

dnschneid on Jun 25, 2020

i just dm’ed the author of this article on twitter. (i found his twitter through a google search, as it wasn’t listed on linux.com.) i filled him in on the changes and linked him to this page, so i hope that this is useful, even in the tiniest way!

levidoughty on Jun 25, 2020

@DennisLfromGA

The wikis are editable for all so you can add the keyboard updates yourself or you can file an issue that needs wiki entries or updates so others can update them. <

Ah, I wasn’t aware. I’ll probably update it when I’m finished with what I’m doing, thank you.

foxsouns on Jan 24, 2020

This installs the crouton script to /usr/local/bin with appropriate access rights.

See: https://linux.die.net/man/1/install

ImpatientHippo on Sep 19, 2019

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On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 10:55 PM Mr. Hallway @.***> wrote:

@flexhornmoringstar https://github.com/flexhornmoringstar

[image: issuewithmycrouton] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/82354112/124328862-0274ae80-db50-11eb-9752-815454fb8e84.png whats this all about seeing dead threads on the issue.

This does not have to do with issue The internet is wrong and all the tutorials are broken https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/4026. Maybe look at this https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/4526#issuecomment-866385275 comment from @DennisLfromGA https://github.com/DennisLfromGA.

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flexhornmoringstar on Jul 3, 2021

@flexhornmoringstar

whats this all about seeing dead threads on the issue.

This does not have to do with issue The internet is wrong and all the tutorials are broken . Maybe look at this comment from @DennisLfromGA.

betapictoris on Jul 3, 2021

issuewithmycrouton whats this all about seeing dead threads on the issue.

flexhornmoringstar on Jul 2, 2021

@jvschiavo Yes.

JL2210 on Sep 19, 2019