termux/proot-distro
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A utility for managing proot containers.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 11 comments · first 2023-04-29 · latest 2026-07-07
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…symbolism of recurrence, it was a pain to set up. Will have a look. [0]: https://sprites.dev/ [1]: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
comment by constantius · 2026-07-07 · in Show HN: Shellular – run Claude Code, Codex, Pi from your phone -
…"having root" as I understand and I was able to get more of the services I wanted running on it. https://github.com/termux/proot-distro looks really interesting too and I intend to test it in the future!
comment by stets · 2026-01-03 · in Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone -
I actually tried to get PMOS support upstreamed: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/issues/429 But unfortunately they didn't think it was different enough from Alpine and I didn't have the cycles to argue the point at the time. It…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-07-25 · in Running PostmarketOS on Android Termux proot without a custom ROM (2024) -
…root access, see ex. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66084/simulate-chro... There's also https://github.com/termux/proot-distro which may or may not count as containers depending on how you define the word but I think it does count
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-02-21 · in On Running systemd-nspawn Containers (2022) -
…closed. Guess enough people did that until they decided maybe it's not a bad idea after all. [1]: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
comment by hks0 · 2024-11-28 · in PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc -
…Firefox either directly or via a chroot/proot "container" via for example proot-distro [0]. [0] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
comment by axytol · 2024-09-22 · in Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets -
…RBALL_SHA256['aarch64']="6ae4d30a75dacd5991a1c1ab13453a119b54a437d236b1680b6d844f015d141b" # based on https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/blob/master/distro-build/alpine.sh distro_setup() { mv ./etc/apk/repositories…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-07-23 · in PostmarketOS updates: new homepage, pmbootstrap v3, sensors, libcamera -
…basis). I wonder how hard it would be to get postmarketos added as an official option through https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/tree/master - seems like it should be straightforward? There's already an Alpine config, and PMOS is…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-07-22 · in PostmarketOS updates: new homepage, pmbootstrap v3, sensors, libcamera -
…which does the same thing but with conventional linux distributions like Debian and Arch. https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
comment by kortriephfhe · 2023-04-30 · in Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based) -
…in Termux on an android phone. https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/y0kupg/termux_on_ma... https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
comment by knaik94 · 2023-04-30 · in Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app -
…a fairly big performance impact, but it works if you want to run arbitrary arm linux binaries. [1] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
comment by yokem55 · 2023-04-29 · in Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app