Provision a new Chromebook linux environment

[coding-to-music]

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