Provision a new Chromebook linux environment #383
Description
Copy the following into the Downloads directory save-files
# files
.bash_history
.bashrc
.gitconfig
.bash_alias
.ssh (directory)
using Chromebook settings remove and create a linux environment
using Chromebook settings remove and create a linux environment
Go into the new linux and back up files
mv .bashrc to .bashrc_original
Copy the Downloads/save-file contents to the root
Copy the Downloads/save-file contents to the root
# copy the dot files
cp ap/save-files/.* .
# copy the .ssh directory
cp -r ap/save-files/.ssh .
Change the permissions as needed of the .ssh files
# Set public/private key permissions
# Octal form
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# Equivalent literal form
chmod u=rw,go= ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# Optional: make public key readable
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub # chmod a=r,u+w ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# Set directory permissions
chmod 700 ~/.ssh # chmod u=rwx,go= ~/.ssh
# Legend for literal form
# +: allow -: deny =: reset and allow
# u: user r: read
# g: group w: write
# o: others x: execute
# a: all
verify can connect to GitHub
ssh -vT [email protected]
Check space used BEFORE installing vscode
df -h
Output
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vdb 4.5G 1.7G 2.5G 41% /
none 492K 4.0K 488K 1% /dev
/dev/vdb 4.5G 1.7G 2.5G 41% /dev/wl0
tmpfs 100K 0 100K 0% /dev/lxd
run 1.4G 32K 1.4G 1% /dev/.host_ip
/dev/root 421M 288M 124M 70% /dev/.ssh/sshd_config
9p 1.9G 784K 1.9G 1% /mnt/chromeos
tmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /mnt/external
/dev/vda 57M 57M 0 100% /opt/google/cros-containers
fonts 2.8G 2.4G 337M 88% /usr/share/fonts/chromeos
tmpfs 100K 0 100K 0% /dev/.lxd-mounts
devtmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /dev/tty
tmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 556M 116K 556M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 278M 16K 278M 1% /run/user/1000
install vscode
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/12/03/chromebook-get-started
install gnome-keyring for use by vscode
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gnome-keyring
download vscode .deb install file
https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Follow instructions https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/12/03/chromebook-get-started
run vscode with verbose output
code --verbose
see what is running via systemctl
sudo systemctl status
Output
● penguin
State: running
Jobs: 0 queued
Failed: 0 units
Since: Tue 2022-11-15 01:26:32 EST; 1min 23s ago
CGroup: /
├─user.slice
│ └─user-1000.slice
│ └─[email protected]
│ ├─app.slice
│ │ ├─app-sommelier.slice
│ │ │ ├─[email protected]
│ │ │ │ └─173 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /usr/bin/sommelier --library-path /opt/google/cros-containers/bi>
│ │ │ └─[email protected]
│ │ │ └─165 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /usr/bin/sommelier --library-path /opt/google/cros-containers/bi>
│ │ ├─app-sommelier\x2dx.slice
│ │ │ ├─[email protected]
│ │ │ │ ├─170 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /usr/bin/sommelier --library-path /opt/google/cros-containers/bi>
│ │ │ │ └─193 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/Xwayland --library-path /opt/goo>
│ │ │ └─[email protected]
│ │ │ ├─171 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /usr/bin/sommelier --library-path /opt/google/cros-containers/bi>
│ │ │ └─194 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/Xwayland --library-path /opt/goo>
│ │ ├─cros-garcon.service
│ │ │ ├─245 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/garcon --library-path /opt/google/>
│ │ │ ├─258 /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
│ │ │ ├─260 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --argv0 /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/vshd --library-path /opt/google/cr>
│ │ │ ├─266 -bash
│ │ │ ├─550 sudo systemctl status
│ │ │ ├─551 systemctl status
│ │ │ └─552 less
│ │ └─dbus.service
│ │ └─206 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
│ └─init.scope
│ ├─135 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
│ └─137 (sd-pam)
├─init.scope
│ └─1 /sbin/init
└─system.slice
├─packagekit.service
│ └─261 /usr/libexec/packagekitd
├─systemd-udevd.service
│ └─71 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
├─networking.service
│ └─104 /sbin/dhclient -4 -v -i -pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases -I -df /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient6.eth0.leases eth0
├─polkit.service
│ └─188 /usr/libexec/polkitd --no-debug
├─rtkit-daemon.service
│ └─184 /usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon
├─systemd-journald.service
│ └─62 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
├─console-getty.service
│ └─132 /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
├─cros-sftp.service
│ └─134 sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D -f /dev/.ssh/sshd_config [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
├─dbus.service
│ └─85 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
└─systemd-logind.service
└─87 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
Check space used AFTER installing vscode and syncing settings for extensions etc - 1.4 gb of space used
vscode and syncing settings for extensions etc -
1.7 gb before
3.1 gb after
--------------
1.4 gb of space used
df -h
Output
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vdb 4.5G 3.1G 1.2G 72% /
none 492K 4.0K 488K 1% /dev
/dev/vdb 4.5G 3.1G 1.2G 72% /dev/wl0
tmpfs 100K 0 100K 0% /dev/lxd
run 1.4G 32K 1.4G 1% /dev/.host_ip
/dev/root 421M 288M 124M 70% /dev/.ssh/sshd_config
9p 1.9G 784K 1.9G 1% /mnt/chromeos
tmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /mnt/external
/dev/vda 57M 57M 0 100% /opt/google/cros-containers
fonts 2.8G 2.4G 337M 88% /usr/share/fonts/chromeos
tmpfs 100K 0 100K 0% /dev/.lxd-mounts
devtmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /dev/tty
tmpfs 1.4G 32M 1.4G 3% /dev/shm
tmpfs 556M 124K 556M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 278M 64K 278M 1% /run/user/1000