How do install the latest version of Ubuntu on my HP Chromebook 14?

Question

I need help jailbreaking my chromebook. I have a HP Chromebook 14. I've downloaded ubuntu the "precise" version but i want to install the latest that i can with chromebook. im not sure if i can just not jailbreak my chromebook and just download it from the site directly im completely clueless. but im trying to download an auto clicker.

Answer 1

Irrelevant vocabulary like "jailbreaking" is misleading and won't get you any further, please don't use it. (After all the mode is called developer mode.) Especially if your actual question is about something else.

For Chromebooks we have a few links in our tag-wiki, one for Crouton and one for ChrUbuntu chrx/Gallium OS. I recommend the latter.

It's worth noting that there are different classes of devices and platforms:

• Traditional desktops, laptops, netbooks and the like with a BIOS firmware

  • Less traditional desktops and laptops with UEFI firmware
  • EFI-based Macs

  You can find officially supported images for installation on the respective websites for the different Ubuntu flavors.

  There are also some pre-installed images for embedded devices and other platforms.

• Modern and locked down devices like smartphones and tablets

  Some of these devices can be rooted and there are official images for developer devices available to install Ubuntu on these devices. Everything else is not officially supported.

• Chromebooks that have a developer mode to tinker with

  There is not much documentation about this in the Ubuntu community currently. (Don't blame the users around here, they don't even know what hits them until it's to late.)

  chroot installations are not officially supported, because these don't run the Ubuntu Linux kernel. Installations that setup an environment to download and install Ubuntu like on traditional desktops and laptops are probably supported and less quirky.