It is recommended to update apt-get repositories on the first launch of the guest system: Now you are in the x86 environment that can be checked by running the ‘arch’ command:Ħ. Starting the shell in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/debian-8ĥ. Enter the guest x86 system by using the following command: Unpack the downloaded archive by entering the following command in Terminal:ģ. Install and activate ExaGear on your RPi by running install-exagear.sh script in a directory with deb packages and one license key:Ĥ. Download ExaGear Desktop archive with installation packages and license key. Then restart dphys-swapfile to apply changes:Ģ. Press F3 key to save changes and F2 to close the file. You should change it to 2048MB in the configuration file. Open configuration file in Terminal (command line) using the following command: Google Chrome is CPU intensive application, therefore, we recommend to increase swap space. Google Chrome installation instruction Configure Raspbianġ. P.S.: you might also be interested in how to set up VPN on your Raspberry Pi to protect your privacy while surfing the Internet. Here is a simple instruction on how to install and run Google Chrome on your RPi 3 device. We recommend using Exagear Desktop 1.5 and higher to achieve reasonable performance. That’s why we are making our best effort to optimize Exagear Desktop to run Chrome more smoothly. The reason is that Raspberry Pi has lower performance comparing to modern PCs. In the previous versions of Exagear Desktop you could launch Chrome but it was running not very fast. And this means that you can launch any application available in x86 Linux world, including Google Chrome!

Using Exagear Desktop allows you to get full x86 Linux environment. Good news that there is a simple solution to override this issue. For example, you can watch videos on Netflix or Amazon Prime with Chrome and can’t with Chromium.

Chrome includes a number of proprietary libraries and in some cases, you need to use authentic Google software.

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