Chromebook will start to set up Linux development environment.

Under the Developers section, turn on Linux development environment.

On your Chromebook, at the bottom right, select the time to open the system tray.

You need to turn on it manually through the following steps: Then, you can use these programs to write code and create apps. Chromebook offers a feature named Linux, which allows you to install Linux command-line tools, code editors, and IDEs (integrated development environments) on your Chromebook. How to get Linux on Chromebook? The easiest way is to enable Linux on Chromebook. You can choose one of them according to your condition. This post from MiniTool Partition Wizard introduces 2 ways to help you install Linux on Chromebook. More tips for Chromebook Pixel HERE.Some people may want to run Linux apps on a Chromebook.

If you're using a Chromebook with a touch screen, also add the 'touch' target, like this (example for Xfce): '-t xfce,touch'.

Use 'sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t help' to see all the available targets and find out more about this. The target can be the desktop environment (in the two commands below) such as 'unity', 'xfce' and so on or other 'packs' like 'touch' for instance.

'-t' means 'targets' which is what Crouton uses to decide what to install.

For this reason, I recommend encrypting the chroot by using '-e'

in Developer Mode, the default configuration is completely insecure and you won't be prompted for a password when using 'sudo' in the Chrome OS terminal.

You can see a list of supported Ubuntu versions by running ' sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r list'

by default, Crouton will install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise) but I added 'precise' to the first command below so you can see how you can change the Ubuntu version.

Before proceeding, I'll briefly explain the commands below:

Install ubuntu on chrome book