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Is there any tutorial regarding how to use termux on an Android phone ? (feddit.online)

submitted 1 month ago by MastKalandar@feddit.online to c/android@programming.dev

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tutorial, I can't remember, but I do remember some pointers:

Termux first needs the phone to be rooted to properly interact with anything outside of its $HOME, including Android's user's internal storage and SD card
Iirc Termux lists useful packages in its default text, including the one for being able to interact with root
Termux is a Linux distro heavily adapted to work as an Android program, but that makes commands familiar; if you used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc., commands follow the same structure as apt's, but using pkg instead

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Termux first needs the phone to be rooted to properly interact with anything outside of its $HOME, including Android's user's internal storage and SD card

this is false, termux does not need root for most things including accessing internal storage (/sdcard)

Termux is a Linux distro heavily adapted to work as an Android program, but that makes commands familiar; if you used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc., commands follow the same structure as apt's, but using pkg instead

this is also not true, it's not a linux distro, it's just *nixy tools natively compiled for android. thus for example it uses android native libc. apt command also still works on termux, as pkg is a wrapper around apt.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago

Went to double-check both things.

About root, I think I got it confused with two different things at the same time, termux-setup-storage, and the external storage specifically requiring root to work (first paragraph after the data table).

About (not) being a Linux distro, reading deeper into it, it sounds a lot like DOSBox, which is also a terminal emulator which can run programs for the system it pretends to be while using the host system's file system.