I don't know, how to install Chessbase 16/17 in my chromebook. In the play store (app store), the Chessbase app is not the actual Chessbase 16/17. Please help.
Full chess base is windows program and chromebook is a some sort of Linux variant. You cannot install windows programs on it.
@petri999 said in #2:
> Full chess base is windows program and chromebook is a some sort of Linux variant. You cannot install windows programs on it.
So it is not possible to install Chessbase 16/17 on Chromebook?
> Full chess base is windows program and chromebook is a some sort of Linux variant. You cannot install windows programs on it.
So it is not possible to install Chessbase 16/17 on Chromebook?
No ofcourse not. Chromebook is very special computer and mostly you can install only app from appstore. It is intentionally very closed (i.e safe) environment. Well you can with little effort install stuff on your own BUT that takes skills that you are unlikely to have - given you need to ask this question. But even then : No you cannot run Windows program in ChromeOS. Just like you cannot load iPhone apps to android and visa versa. ChromeOS is not really meant run programs like chessbase. It supposed to be mostly web service client. Originally you could not install anything on it but the application resided itn the web.
I've never touched a Chromebook, but I know the OS it's a customized GNU/Linux distro. An attempt would be to install Windows inside a virtual machine, but I believe Chromebooks don't have a lot of juice, right? I guess you don't lose anything by trying. Try installing VirtualBox and then Windows inside, and then Chessbase. If you need to do more and change the OS of your Chromebook, I think you need to disassemble it a bit and remove some physical protection, and I assume this voids any warranty you may have. That's probably not something you're willing to do.
Maybe you can install a database reader native to GNU/Linux and just load Chessbase's database there. If the OS doesn't let you install software you may need to do the other thing; I don't know how much freedom you have to install stuff from places that aren't the official repository in a Chromebook.
Maybe you can install a database reader native to GNU/Linux and just load Chessbase's database there. If the OS doesn't let you install software you may need to do the other thing; I don't know how much freedom you have to install stuff from places that aren't the official repository in a Chromebook.
@JuicyChickenNO1 said in #5:
> I've never touched a Chromebook, but I know the OS it's a customized GNU/Linux distro. An attempt would be to install Windows inside a virtual machine, but I believe Chromebooks don't have a lot of juice, right? I guess you don't lose anything by trying. Try installing VirtualBox and then Windows inside, and then Chessbase. If you need to do more and change the OS of your Chromebook, I think you need to disassemble it a bit and remove some physical protection, and I assume this voids any warranty you may have. That's probably not something you're willing to do.
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> Maybe you can install a database reader native to GNU/Linux and just load Chessbase's database there. If the OS doesn't let you install software you may need to do the other thing; I don't know how much freedom you have to install stuff from places that aren't the official repository in a Chromebook.
thx
> I've never touched a Chromebook, but I know the OS it's a customized GNU/Linux distro. An attempt would be to install Windows inside a virtual machine, but I believe Chromebooks don't have a lot of juice, right? I guess you don't lose anything by trying. Try installing VirtualBox and then Windows inside, and then Chessbase. If you need to do more and change the OS of your Chromebook, I think you need to disassemble it a bit and remove some physical protection, and I assume this voids any warranty you may have. That's probably not something you're willing to do.
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> Maybe you can install a database reader native to GNU/Linux and just load Chessbase's database there. If the OS doesn't let you install software you may need to do the other thing; I don't know how much freedom you have to install stuff from places that aren't the official repository in a Chromebook.
thx