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i have ubuntu on my chromebook, thus to save space, i would like to run apps from external storage. how do i do that.

funsungoku
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  • Is this what you are looking for? http://askubuntu.com/questions/193695/installing-packages-into-local-directory – dtmland Dec 21 '14 at 22:31

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You can add the path of the installed applications to .bashrc (presuming you are using BASH).
Simply open the .bashrc with your favourite editor and insert a new line with
PATH=$PATH:/mountpoint/bin
where mountpoint is the mount point of your external storage.
bin is the directory of you used applications. You can even add more if you like, as for example PATH=$PATH:/mountpoint/bin:/mountpoint/sbin:/mountpoint/usr/bin:/mountpoint/usr/sbin.

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