GNU utilities on Android, without rooting the device (obsolete)
Post date: Oct 23, 2012 10:03:52 AM
Note: GNURoot obsoleted the information below.
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Ubuntu noroot is a preliminary package that will provide a full Debian environment with package management.
The system is not very usable as-it-is. For one, it runs in VNC and X11. It can however be coerced into a proper text-only system. Here's how to do it (approximately).
- Install the package
- Install the Android Terminal Emulator
- Now we need to break out of the chroot environment and chmod a+rwx everything, so
- From the X11 screen, run /bin/bash in terminal to get a shell
- export FAKEROOT_EXCLUDE_PATH=/data:$FAKEROOT_EXCLUDE_PATH
- chmod -R a+rwx /data/data/cuntubuntu.com/*
When you want to use the textmode environment,
- Start the android terminal emulator
- cd /data/data/com.cuntubuntu/files
- ./chroot.sh bin/sh fakeroot.sh bin/sh
- bash
This works because the "terminal emulator" user now has rwx access of the debian system. Note that apt-get only works on some packages. In the meanwhile, use this workaround
- dpkg-deb -x <packagename.deb> /