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    From Noh Wai@VERT/TL-QWK to All on Mon Apr 28 16:38:44 2025
    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 Tue Apr 29 00:04:14 2025
    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 Tue Apr 29 07:17:18 2025
    phigan wrote to Noh Wai <=-

    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.


    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 Tue Apr 29 09:57:48 2025
    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 Wed Apr 30 12:08:07 2025
    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 Wed Apr 30 12:11:52 2025
    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 Wed Apr 30 19:26:23 2025
    phigan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    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.

    It does work, and well. There are others also.



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