Hi,
I want to install a Chrome browser on Balena host os and need to open the browser on boot.
However, I have googled, but I did not get any solution.
Can anybody please help me?
Thanks and Regards,
Nikunj
Hello,
The Balena hostOS is what runs your containers, you don’t install anything in it.
You can run a full desktop in a container following this guide https://www.balena.io/blog/running-a-desktop-manager-with-balena/
Adapt it to install chrome and run it on boot.
I doubt chrome is available in the debian repos, but you can install the chromium-browser package.
If you don’t want a full desktop but only a full screen web browser on a raspberry pi, we have this project: https://github.com/balena-io-projects/balena-wpe
We also have a blog post on how to create a web frame with balena-wpe here https://www.balena.io/blog/make-a-web-frame-with-raspberry-pi-in-30-minutes/ (if you’re using a raspberry pi)