I'm using the terminal crosh. I typed in shell to make change from crosh to chronos@localhost and after that I am having no luck with trying to install the programs I want. There's always an error message after I press enter.

Which distro is this? Run cat /etc/lsb-release to find out. "crosh" indicates this is Chrome OS, but elsewhere you mention Elementary OS.

Can you explain what you mean by that? You typed "shell", literally?

Can you share the commands you enter, and the error messages?

Effectively a duplicate. See comment in other thread(s) - looks like chrome OS, not elementary.

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Tried to type the command to find out the distro and got an error message. So, I'm guessing the seller misinformed me of what OS it was.

Yes, after I open the terminal called "crosh" I typed "shell" into the terminal and the name changed from crosh to chronos@localhost then I tried to type the commands for installing wine which usually start with sudo something another, then press enter to go to the next line, but then it shows an error message saying that sudo apt command not found.

I can't type it word for word right now, because I'm not on my laptop currently. I'm replying via mobile.

Edit: this for example,

cat /etc/lsb-release
Error cat: command not found

Crosh is the Chrome OS shell.
I know very little about Chrome but I'm sure that it doesn't recognise most Linux commands.
Try a web search for crosh commands.

OP: probably better off just getting rid of the OS on that device and either installing Linux itself as per the instructions in one of your other threads on the same subject, or put windows 10 back on. Going to be much easier than futzing around with whatever is installed now.

I've been following this thread since yesterday, and I sure feel bad for everyone. People here have a lot of patience and are really really trying to help OP, but I'll going to be straightforward and cut the crap.

Linux is a great operating system, but like everything (even Windows) has it's own learning curve. Remember when you first used a computer or Medibang paint pro. You don't know what to do, or where things are or how to do something. Eventually, you figure out stuffs by reading blogs, articles, man pages, watching YouTube videos. I'm sure you can do it too.

Right now, I think it's better if you can ask someone to install Windows for you as it seems you don't need anything Linux specific. Or dualboot some standard Linux distro like Kubuntu or Mint and learn Linux at your own pace. As someone who has never used Linux and with a non-standard distro that lacks documentation, it will be hard for you get up to speed and hard for people to help you.

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