Morton Fox's journal

The stock Chrome OS installation on a Google Chrome notebook doesn't make it easy to install additional software. So all this while, in order to use TwitVim, I'd been opening an ssh session to my webhost, Joyent, and running Vim and TwitVim in the shell account there. This is an adequate solution to get up and running with TwitVim quickly but it has a few problems. The worst problem is ssh will disconnect if the network connection is bad or if you leave it idle for too long. Also, the ssh session is not preserved if I close the lid of the Cr-48 (to put it in sleep mode) because the network connection goes away then too. Those problems are lessened somewhat if I run Vim and TwitVim in a screen virtual terminal, but still I thought there had to be a better way.

Recently, I came across a blog post about installing Nano on the Cr-48. The basic idea is the stock Cr-48 setup can use binary packages from Arch Linux. That completely eliminates the need to set up a Chrome OS development system and build the software yourself. I figured if he can do that with Nano, then I can install Vim the same way and after that, running TwitVim would be a snap.

Here are the steps I used:

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