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Installing CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu

To install Crossover Chromium issue the following commands in the terminal window (Application-> Accessories -> Terminal):

Note: The package downloaded below is for 32bit version of the CrossOver Chromium , Codeweavers has released 64 bit version too. You can download 64bit version from this page.

wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

AND

sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

CrossOver Chromium should be properly installed and you can launch CrossOver Chromium from (Applications -> CrossOver Chromium -> Chromium ).

CrossOver Chromium, though usable is extremely erratic,sluggish and does not integrate with Linux desktop properly owing to it being a windows application running atop Wine.

Any user or admin more than likely faced or will face a situation where their command will take a long time to complete and at the same time you’d want to logout and go home. If user’s shell exits, it sends a SIGHUP signal to it’s children killing them all. However, if the job is preceded by the nohup command, then the program ignores SIGHUP and will continue to run on the system until completion.

By using nohup, it releases the command to the system level and it becomes independent of your shell and functions as a system daemon. You can also run your command and redirect output to a log to scan through later.

Here are some examples of using nohup.

$ nohup myprogram &
$ exit

- The above command starts myprogram in the background in such a way that the subsequent logout does not stop it. By default, nohup.out is created and captures all the output.

$ nohup myprogram > output.log &

- The above redirect output to a file other than the nohup.out.

If you already have something running in bg without using the nohup command, you can easily bring nohup to the picture:

$ myprogram &
$ nohup -p `pgrep myprogram`

- myprogram is now preceded by nohup.