Linux (32-bit)
Installing the Secure Browser for Linux (32-bit)
This procedure installs the Secure Browser on desktop computers running one of the Linux distributions listed in the above table. These instructions may vary for your individual Linux distribution.
- Uninstall any previous versions of the Secure Browser by deleting the directory containing it.
- Obtain the root or super-user password for the computer on which you are installing the Secure Browser.
- Click the Download Browser link above. A dialog window opens. If prompted for a download location, select the desktop.
- For Ubuntu 16.04, right-click the downloaded file
SD
SecureBrowserX.X-YYYY-MM-DD-i686.tar.bz2
(32-bit) and select Extract Here to expand the file. For Fedora, launch the terminal, enter tar xfjv SDSecureBrowser.tar.bz2, and press enter. This creates the SDSecureBrowser folder on the desktop.
- Open the terminal and go to the Secure Browser directory location that was extracted in step 4. Switch to a super-user or root user by typing
su [UserName]
into the terminal. When prompted, enter the super-user or root user password you obtained in step 2.
- Enter
install-icon.sh
into the terminal to run the install-icon.sh
file as an executable. When prompted, enter the super-user or root user password obtained in step 2.
- Enter
su [UserName]
into the terminal to switch back to the standard user. When prompted, enter the standard user password. Then run the install-icon.sh -i
command through the terminal to install icons for the standard user.
- The script installs all dependent libraries and supported voice packs and creates a SDSecureBrowser icon on the desktop. In Fedora 29, the icon is installed in the Charm.
- Ensure all backgrounds jobs, such as virus scans or software updates, are scheduled outside of test windows. For example, if your testing takes place between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., schedule background jobs outside of these hours.
- If text-to-speech testing is performed on this computer, reboot it.
- From the desktop, double-click the SDSecureBrowser icon to launch the browser. An Untrusted App Launcher error message appears.
-
Click Trust and Launch. The student login screen appears. The browser fills the entire screen and hides any panels or launchers.
- To exit the browser, click X in the upper-right corner of the screen.