Enable Linux on Chromebook

See a TA while following these instructions

• See: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
• Make sure they have admin access
• Then go to Settings>Advance>Date&Time>Enable Linux
• Once it’s installed terminal will open

Give Linux access to your Downloads Folder

• Open My Files
• Click Give Linux Access

Miniconda:

• Just use the Quick command line install instructions for Linux.
• Then conda create -n cs110 matplotlib pytest
• Finally, conda run -n cs110 python -m pip install -U byu_pytest_utils byubit

Download Pycharm

• https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/?section=linux
• Download the tar.gz for Linux version of the Community edition (You have to scroll down a bit)
  • Maybe try the AMD version, it might avoid the JRE error described below.
  • Additionally apparently a command line version of the installation exist and that might also be better.
• Unpack the pycharm folder to the Linux Files Folder (You can just double click tar.gz and copy the folder over)
• Run cd ./pycharm-community-2023.3.2/bin/ or whatever version of pycharm was installed
• Then bash ./pycharm.sh

If you have the no JRE found error

Run sudo apt-get install openjdk-17-jdk

Make a bash script called start_pycharm.sh with these lines. Edit them for your pycharm version and username.

#! /usr/bin/bash
cd /home/username/pycharm-community-2023.3.2/bin
PYCHARM_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64 bash pycharm.sh

Then you can run pycharm with:

bash start_pycharm.sh

You can just type bash st and then tab.

• Once PyCharm has started there are a couple of different things you need to do:
  • When creating the new project be sure to set the project location to be within the Linux Files
    • i.e. the path should begin with ~/usr
  • Set the environment to a local virtual environment
  • Open a terminal and run sudo apt-get python3-tk
  • Then run pip install matplotlib pytest byubit byu_pytest_utils
    • After a moment you will be asked to confirm if you want to install the packages. Type y and press enter.