Linux installation on Chromebook

Help, Support & Bugs
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Hello I’m trying to get Renoise running on a Chromebook. I’m not sure if it’s possible, and to be honest i don’t have much experience with Linux through the terminal sandboxed on my chromebook.

I managed to get a download into usr/local and then ran the install.sh

I got a message saying installation of renoise SUCCEEDED and also one that says PAM seems not to be installed or configured for audio applications.

It added a renoise app icon into the chromebook menu, but this doesn’t open the app, so I’m assuming I’m missing something.

I’m on an acer chromebook 14 4gb. Linux 9 (stretch)

Like I say, I’m not sure if it’s even possible to run.

Any help would be much appreciated

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Pretty sure Chromebooks run ARM processors, and pretty sure there is no Renoise that runs on an ARM chip.

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I think mine runs on a “Quad Core 1.6 Ghz (max 2.24 Ghz) Intel Celeron Processor N3160”.

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If it’s an x86 family cpu which appears to be the case then it should work. Not sure about that PAM stuff, I think that’s is only needed for realtime priority configuration.
I had renoise running an an Asus Eee-PC 10 years ago (it was not a great experience though, ultimately due to the small keyboard and screen)

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Could it possibly be something to do with putting in my license password then?

After getting it supposedly ‘Successfully’ installed the app makes as if to open when I click the icon in the Chromebook app draw, but then nothing happens. (The small app icon just goes grey for a second)

Do I need to verify my license somehow through the Linux terminal? I’m never presented with the option on the chrome side.

(Also, it’s app doesn’t have an uninstall option when I right click it. Audacity etc do, but they were installed via ‘sudo apt get install’. Not sure if this makes a difference? This is all completely foreign to me, I’m just cobbling bits of info I’ve found online to get this far.)

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I’m pretty certain there is no ‘license password’ thing with Renoise. You either have the full version or the demo version. Just wild stab(s), maybe it tried to run Renoise but failed to initialize(?) I’d try running Renoise from the terminal see if anything is output(?)

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Okay, just vaguely remember having to put in my backstage password when using it on my Mac once. Probably after an update or something.

Could you tell me exactly how I’d run that command please? I tried running it a couple of times but had no success.

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So did you go to the ‘command line’ (Linux terminal) and type:

renoise

And if it fails does it say anything?

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It returns -bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory

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Okay. You’ve got to find where the renoise executable is.

At the terminal just change directory to /usr/local/bin/ with the command:

cd /usr/local/bin

List the files in that directory with:

ls -l

Is there a renoise directory listed (if there is it will probably have the version appended like renoise-3.2.1)?

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It returns ‘renoise -> /usr/local/bin/renoise-3.1.1’

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Ok, can you change into that directory with:

cd renoise-3.1.1

And if you list the files with:

ls -l

is there a renoise executable there? Something roughly along the lines of:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 4tey 4tey 27812280 Apr 22 11:30  renoise
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It returns -bash: cd: renoise-3.1.1: Not a directory

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Ok, Try:

cd /usr/local/bin/renoise-3.1.1

?

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Not a directory

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Ok, so if you do:

cd /usr/local/bin

and then you do (btw the ./ is important):

./renoise-3.1.1

it says:

No such file or directory
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When listed ‘Renoise’ is turquoise. And ‘renoise-3.1.1’ is green. If that is any use.

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Yes, it returns -bash: ./renoise-3.1.1: no such file or directory

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Before we went down this little bit of ‘finding renoise executables’ madness…

Is your Chromebook running a 32-bit or 64-bit Linux OS? Is the Renoise 3.1.1 download 32-bit or 64-bit?

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Renoise is the 32bit version, as I thought that had most chance of being compatible with whatever. I did note my machine info…