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Termux/Linux-on-Android
From
Noh Wai@VERT/TL-QWK to
All on Monday, April 28, 2025 16:38:44
Has anyone else here experimented on the Linux environment provided by the Termux app?
I'm posting from it right now and have made a few interesting discoveries:
*All modern Android versions lock down the serial line and require rooting to access it. (boo)
*Compiling applications is not as straightforward
*Anything that requires sudo is basically off limits because that also requires rooting.
I haven't yet tried to fire up a GUI environment from within Termux. That's on the back burner until the github conversation about SyncTerm finds a way to get it to compile without needing root privileges to do so.
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From
phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to
Noh Wai on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 00:04:14
Re: Termux/Linux-on-Android
By: Noh Wai to All on Mon Apr 28 2025 04:38 pm
> I haven't yet tried to fire up a GUI
> environment from within Termux. That
You can definitely run a GUI in it and
then VNC into it. Most guides tell you
to get another app alongside Termux
that will download a full distro in a
chroot environment. You may be able to
do without that, though. I use Termux
all the time, but I don't run any GUI
stuff in it.. never really needed to.
What about compiling Syncterm needs
root? You should be able to compile
stuff as you would on anything else..
but you'd have to have all the
pre-reqs.
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From
poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to
phigan on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 07:17:18
-=> phigan wrote to Noh Wai <=-
ph> You can definitely run a GUI in it and
ph> then VNC into it. Most guides tell you
ph> to get another app alongside Termux
ph> that will download a full distro in a
ph> chroot environment. You may be able to
ph> do without that, though. I use Termux
ph> all the time, but I don't run any GUI
ph> stuff in it.. never really needed to.
I tried Kali linux in a rooted Samsung S3 way back when. I was intrigued
by the idea of being able to have a portable environment I could VNC
into from any client. Having RDP might be even easier, as most client
desktops have some means to RDP out from them.
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From
Noh Wai@VERT/TL-QWK to
phigan on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 09:57:48
Re: Termux/Linux-on-Android
By: phigan to Noh Wai on Tue Apr 29 2025 12:04 am
During the installation process it tries to create a folder, cmake tries to create a folder at /usr/local/bin - that is the current sticking point
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From
phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to
poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 12:08:07
Re: Re: Termux/Linux-on-Android
By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Tue Apr 29 2025 07:17 am
> into from any client. Having RDP might be even easier, as most client
> desktops have some means to RDP out from them.
Yeah, RDP would be cool, but there's not an RDP daemon for Linux that I know of
:). IIRC there was something called xrdp, though. Maybe that would work. You
don't need the device to be rooted, by the way, just in case you weren't aware.
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From
phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to
Noh Wai on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 12:11:52
Re: Termux/Linux-on-Android
By: Noh Wai to phigan on Tue Apr 29 2025 09:57 am
> During the installation process it tries to create a folder, cmake tries to
> create a folder at /usr/local/bin - that is the current sticking point
Oh, that sounds like it's already compiled and you are just trying to run the
"make install" portion. It's not really necessary, just find the binary in the
bin or release or whatever directory and run it. If you really want to
"install" it, though, modify the Makefile and replace /usr/local/ with
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/ or you could do it all over and give
configure the --prefix=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/ argument.
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From
Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to
phigan on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 19:26:23
-=> phigan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
ph> Re: Re: Termux/Linux-on-Android
ph> By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Tue Apr 29 2025 07:17 am
> into from any client. Having RDP might be even easier, as most client
> desktops have some means to RDP out from them.
ph> Yeah, RDP would be cool, but there's not an RDP daemon for Linux that I
ph> know of :). IIRC there was something called xrdp, though. Maybe that
ph> would work.
It does work, and well. There are others also.
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