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Is this video a legitimate way to get Linux on LineageOS via Termux or is there a better recent method? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://youtu.be/hKypVQuA7yk

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Depends what you mean by "Linux" here.

It's probably not the kernel itself, so do you mean

a terminal e.g. a working shell where you can run commands e.g. ls | wc -l ?
headless containers, e.g. services like Immich accessed elsewhere?
a window manager e.g. KDE or Gnome?
a software with a visual interface, or GUI, e.g. GCompris?

Based on that then one can answer if Termux is sufficient (or "legitimate") or if something else is needed.

PS: You can read some of my notes on termux on different Android devices at https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Android

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

First off all, it's a legitimate way. He just goes through the install instructions from here (https://github.com/termux/termux-x11).

The one thing I would do differently is choosing the right package for your architecture or going with the universal package instead of the arm64 package as he proposes.

Lastly I want to add that that depending on what you want to do a graphical session is sometimes not necessary. Example: For tools like mov-cli for watching movie in the terminal, termux alone is enough, because they integrate with the android mpv app and don't need a xorg session to display graphics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That makes sense much appreciated!! Do you think it would work for LineageOS too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It does work, I have been using it for a long time now in context of my interest of using a phone as a PC.
https://xdaforums.com/t/phone-as-a-pc.4633441/

Thing is that with just termux, you get just the android/termux environment.
There is a way to get more familiar Linux environments running on your phone by using proot from within termux.
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot
For example, using that you can install ARM version of Manjaro, which is basically the same thing that you would run on Raspberry Pi.
But everything in there runs a bit slower, because Proot is some layer that takes up a bit of performance.
Benefit of that is that you can run some Linux software that is not found within Termux packages, but is available in the repositories of other distros. Libreoffice is one such example.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://news.itsfoss.com/google-android-linux-terminal-rollout/

Within developer options natively now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Was broken last I checked - as in, would regularly just crash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Updated my post I put wrong thing. Does it apply to LineageOS as well?

But thanks for that too. That will help with other devices that run regular Android

Thank you!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LineageOS 22.2 (on FP4) does not seem to have that option yet.
At least, it is not listed in the developer options.
You can find it if you tap on the search button within developer options (or just general settings, as that also includes results from developer options) and type "terminal" or "linux".
The (Experimental) Run Linux terminal on Android result shows up.
But after you tap on that, you see that toggle is greyed out. Can't be enabled.

I am interested in getting that to work, so any help is appreciated.
There is hopefully some ADB command or something that forcefully enables Linux environment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I updated to LineageOS 22.2 yesterday. It haa the option, I enabled it and it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No problem. Only Pixel devices currently have this option. No idea about custom ROMs but wish you well on your research