How to install Processing on Chromebook - step by step guide

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You will need Linux-development environment
Settings > Adwanced > Developers > Linux-development environment > Turn on

  1. Download Processing 4.2 for Linux
  2. Copy Processing-4.2-linux-x64.tgz file to Linux files
  3. Open Terminal-program and give commands.

tar xvfz processing-4.2-linux-x64.tgz

./processing-4.2/processing

  1. If you want to launch the Processing program from a shortcut, first install a program that can be used to create shortcuts. Such a program is menulibre. Enter the following commands in the Terminal program:

sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt install menulibre
menulibre

Find the section of Programming and use the plus button to add a new icon.
Enter a name for the icon, e.g.: Processing and description, e.g.: Programming.

Under Command, find the Processing program, which is in the form:
/home/youraccount/processing-4.2/processing

Under Working Directory is the name of the folder where the programs are saved, it is:
/home/youraccount/processing-4.2

Finally, the save icon.

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I didn’t know there is a “linux” developer mode in chromebook. Your tutorial is very useful for me, since some fellow teachers have chrombooks and need to install software designed for windows, osx or linux, not chromebook.

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Nice to hear. Yes, you can install most common programs in Linux environment, just give commands in Terminal, excample

sudo apt-get install gimp
sudo apt-get install inkscape
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

and so on…

But Processing program was tricky one for me, so that’s why it was hard to realize right way.