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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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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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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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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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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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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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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