How to install Wrapper Offline on a Chromebook


Today we are looking at how to install Wrapper Offline on a Chromebook.

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This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU.

Please use the video as a visual guide, and the commands and links below to install it on your Chromebook.

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1) 00:05 (time stamp in the video)
We start the process by enabling the Linux Container on our Chromebook.  You can always remove it again in the future as well if needed.

To enable it, we go to the settings of our Chromebook, inside of it, we click on the "Advance" option in the left panel, and then the "Developers" section. Then enable Linux from there as seen in the video.

2) 00:36
Now we continue to the next phase in the tutorial and that is to run several commands in our Linux terminal, which will install our system to install the application.

During the installation process we will also upgrade our Linux container to Debian 12 Testing, applications like Menulibre doesn't work currently with it, but wew use an alterntive in this video.

Some general facts about the terminal.  To paste a command into the Linux terminal, press "Ctrl Shift v" together.  After you paste a command into the Linux terminal, please press "enter" to run it.  At some commands you will see a question to press Y or n to continue.  If you see it press "enter" to continue.

2.1) This command will move our current Linux system repositories file to a different location, as an backup.  We will create a new onne with the next two commands.

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/oldsources.list

2.2) 01:06 This command will create a new, empty, Linux repositories file.

sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list

2.3) 01:15 This command will add a repositoriy to our newly created file.

sudo echo deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main  | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

2.4) 01:22 Now we will update the repositories of our Linux container

sudo apt update

2.5) 01:36 Now we will upgrade our system to Debian 12 Testing.  The Y and n question will appear in this command, please press "enter" then. 

sudo apt dist-upgrade

2.6) 02:28 Now we will install some packages which the application requires.

sudo apt install p7zip-full libnss3 libvips42

2.7) 02:53 This command will download the installer.

wget https://github.com/Wrapper-Offline/Wrapper-Offline/releases/download/pre2.0.0/Wrapper.Offline-linux-x64.7z

2.8) 03:16 This command will extract the installer.

7z x Wrapper.Offline-linux-x64.7z

2.9) 03:38 Now we will launch Wrapper Offilene, please run this command every time to launch it

*To access all the files and folders of this application, go to your "Linux Files" folder in your file manager and you can access it all their.

Enjoy!

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