I just have to say, thanks a million for this video. My daughter has a decent PC at my place but nothing to use at her mother's house (we're separated), and so I reconditioned an old HP laptop into something useful using Chrome OS, but Chrome Remote Desktop was proving to be a pretty terrible experience for her to control the PC remotely. Using your directions I was able to install Steam and now she can use Steam's Remote Play feature to get a much more responsive experience (as well as being able to play games). You rock!
When I try the first command in terminal, I get the following: *sudo: command not found* Googling reveals that this is caused by some distributions of Linux not including the "sudo" command. (Trying the command without the sudo prefix gives me: *could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)* and a host of other errors cascading from that one, presumably because I don't have access without sudo.) Most tutorials for fixing this error, ie installing/adding the sudo command, involve accessing root (or something like that, I think? Security issues abound) or the "su" command, but when I try to use "su" and input my password, it gives me: *su: Authentication failure* I'm quite positive I'm typing my password right; it's the only password I use to log into the Chromebook, as I only have one account and am the sole owner. It's my Google account password; is this not the password the Chromebook is expecting?
On mine there is no password at all. Are you using Chrome OS Flex or a regular chromebook? Maybe it's not the same on a normal Chromebook, I will need to research :-/
great video, hope that chrome os flex gets more competative so I can replace windows finally. One question regardin steam: Can you try to subsribe to a workshop element? I am wondering if that works
Hey, my brother has a broken pc and we want to get chrome os flex on it. Does the os take a gpu like a 1050Ti, or RTX series? In terms of proton on steam play :) this is the most needed thing for us
I think if Steam is a priority, you might consider a Linux distro right now instead. There are still quite a bit of quirks with Flex that I have been noticing, especially with steam. Evidently there will be a native steam client coming to Chrome OS soon, so the story might change at that point. But right now, the gaming situation is not optimal...
my computer says that linux dev features are not available for my device. i cant seem to find a work around does this mean i have to switch os's for steam?
i know this is months later and i probably wont get a response but here i go. Thanks for the video, im a novice and i was able to install steam on chrome os flex. but steam wont detect my usb controller and i cant figure out why. when i plug it in a pop up comes up in chrome asking to connect to linux, i do that. but steam says no controller connected. any advice?
When I enter the first command it keeps saying libc6-i386 has no installation candidate. It says the package is missing has been obsoleted or is only available from another source. However the following packages replace it. Libc6:i386 Please help I've been trying for 5 hours to get steam on Lenovo Chromebook. Still has libc.so.6 error
Please check out my newer video on installing steam via Flatpak, it is a lot smoother/easier to do. Should be easy to find, it is one of the last few videos I did from just a few weeks ago
i spoke to soon. it pretends to have linux running but in the terminal window i got "Error starting penguin container: 5 Launching vmshell failed: Error starting crostini for terminal: 5" tired to remove and add linux again, got an error message that VM cant launch, after that i see it as enabled again but does not work
Cloud gaming would be your best bet, Steam games have been hit or miss in my testing, although I did play a game on Amazon Luna (not GTA5) and it did work good on Flex
it appears You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6 when i try to run it but i have actually done the things to solve it
Hi Brandon I have did it but I have a problem with it can you please provide me with your company email so I can email you and show you what it comes up Please reply back as soon as possible
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I just have to say, thanks a million for this video. My daughter has a decent PC at my place but nothing to use at her mother's house (we're separated), and so I reconditioned an old HP laptop into something useful using Chrome OS, but Chrome Remote Desktop was proving to be a pretty terrible experience for her to control the PC remotely. Using your directions I was able to install Steam and now she can use Steam's Remote Play feature to get a much more responsive experience (as well as being able to play games). You rock!
awesome, glad you got her set up!
It tells me this: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libc.so.6. What can I do to solve this problem?
same
Thanks, very helpful. Got it installed first try with you tutorial.
You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libc.so.6,what to do?
Worked perfectly for me! Thank you! :)
I hope they bring Borealis Steam and Android apps to Flex one day. I'm sure that can get masses to switch over to Chrome OS Flex
it said package libc6-i386 has no installation candidate
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386
I think this doesn't work for x32bit arm systems..
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
E: Unable to locate package libgl1:i386
....
(sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386).....this line would not write in tried several time in different orders
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 isn't doing anything. i did everything else and steam won't work.
awwww brother. You the man.
How do I fix this specifically WITHOUT Ubuntu?
When I try the first command in terminal, I get the following:
*sudo: command not found*
Googling reveals that this is caused by some distributions of Linux not including the "sudo" command.
(Trying the command without the sudo prefix gives me:
*could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)*
and a host of other errors cascading from that one, presumably because I don't have access without sudo.)
Most tutorials for fixing this error, ie installing/adding the sudo command, involve accessing root (or something like that, I think? Security issues abound) or the "su" command, but when I try to use "su" and input my password, it gives me:
*su: Authentication failure*
I'm quite positive I'm typing my password right; it's the only password I use to log into the Chromebook, as I only have one account and am the sole owner. It's my Google account password; is this not the password the Chromebook is expecting?
On mine there is no password at all. Are you using Chrome OS Flex or a regular chromebook? Maybe it's not the same on a normal Chromebook, I will need to research :-/
@@BrandonStecklein it's a regular Chromebook, so I guess that would be the difference. I'll keep looking into it, thanks!
@@bclairelarrdid you find anything? i’m having the same problem
@@BrandonStecklein did you find anything?
great video, hope that chrome os flex gets more competative so I can replace windows finally. One question regardin steam: Can you try to subsribe to a workshop element? I am wondering if that works
omg thank you so much for this vid it helped a lot
Worked perfectly, thank you.
Please!!! upload a video on installing Chrome Flex OS on i386 cpu.
It's really important for OLD Laptops
Works superb! Thanx!
Great Video Keep it up
thank you! fantastic tutorial!!!
Works Great THANKS!!!!
thanks!
Bro, you cool!
you're too kind
thanks its work on fydeos 👍
me its not working
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:i386
its comming unable to locate these package plss help
After installing everything through thr terminal steam still said it wasnt supported, do i just not have the processor for it?
Hey man, when I try the first command it says "E: Package 'libc6-i386' has no installation candidate?"
Hey, my brother has a broken pc and we want to get chrome os flex on it. Does the os take a gpu like a 1050Ti, or RTX series? In terms of proton on steam play :) this is the most needed thing for us
I think if Steam is a priority, you might consider a Linux distro right now instead. There are still quite a bit of quirks with Flex that I have been noticing, especially with steam. Evidently there will be a native steam client coming to Chrome OS soon, so the story might change at that point. But right now, the gaming situation is not optimal...
Thanks bruh!
my computer says that linux dev features are not available for my device. i cant seem to find a work around does this mean i have to switch os's for steam?
i know this is months later and i probably wont get a response but here i go. Thanks for the video, im a novice and i was able to install steam on chrome os flex. but steam wont detect my usb controller and i cant figure out why. when i plug it in a pop up comes up in chrome asking to connect to linux, i do that. but steam says no controller connected. any advice?
It doesn't work for me like usual
I gave this a thumbs up, but I am actually thumbs downing your bad luck.
Ty it says that I'm missing 32-bit libraries idk what that means
@@Gloomzy363 same for me, wasn't able to find a fix either.
@@dirt3009 oh nice to hear that I'm not the only one not nice tho that it doesn't work for you either
tnx bro
can you tell me what's problem on install libc-i386 that not install can you tell me
thank you
When I enter the first command it keeps saying libc6-i386 has no installation candidate. It says the package is missing has been obsoleted or is only available from another source. However the following packages replace it. Libc6:i386
Please help I've been trying for 5 hours to get steam on Lenovo Chromebook. Still has libc.so.6 error
Please check out my newer video on installing steam via Flatpak, it is a lot smoother/easier to do. Should be easy to find, it is one of the last few videos I did from just a few weeks ago
@@BrandonStecklein ok thank you!
I already fail to install Linux. I get pushed back to the screen to check for OS updates.
101 running from SSD on a 2016 Dell with 8GB and i5
have you checked laptop bios to see if cpu virtualization is enabled?
@@BrandonStecklein it was, but one sub flag (something security) was not on. Now it is and i have linux :D tks
i spoke to soon. it pretends to have linux running but in the terminal window i got "Error starting penguin container: 5
Launching vmshell failed: Error starting crostini for terminal: 5"
tired to remove and add linux again, got an error message that VM cant launch, after that i see it as enabled again but does not work
Can you add something like bluestacks so u can run android apps
شكرا اخي 🥰
Like i cant even download linux development environment becaz it shows an error
You might have to go into your system bios and enable CPU virtualization
@@BrandonStecklein i have done it but its the same thing
steam just says loading
You guess i can install nvidia drivers, discord and cs go on Chrome Os?
I wouldn't count on getting nvidia drivers to work unless the specific card was supported by Flex out of the box
worked but how can i play games like fifa on this seems cant install
If it is a Windows game, you will need to go into Steam settings and enable Steam Play, which allows Windows games to run on Linux
What are the things which you have installed through commands in order to install steam?
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:i386
Hi Brandon, can we play gta 5 on chrome os flex for free on steam or any other cloud gaming software?
Cloud gaming would be your best bet, Steam games have been hit or miss in my testing, although I did play a game on Amazon Luna (not GTA5) and it did work good on Flex
Bro...will csgo runs on this os?
i'll add it to the list of things to test
bruhhh nothing works
suggestion: would u be able to do chrome os lenovo 2010
Might be cutting it close. I think it really depends on the amount of RAM, they say you need at least 4gb
@@BrandonStecklein ok
@@brandynwilliams4544so many videos on youtube about 2 gb ram on chrome os
can it harm our system//
Steam or Flex? Because installing Flex will wipe everything from your Hard Drive
it appears You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libc.so.6 when i try to run it but i have actually done the things to solve it
same problem here, did you find it out ?
@@gry1989 nah
Hi Brandon
I have did it but I have a problem with it can you please provide me with your company email so I can email you and show you what it comes up
Please reply back as soon as possible