opam VS termux-packages

Compare opam vs termux-packages and see what are their differences.

opam

opam is a source-based package manager. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow. (by ocaml)
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opam termux-packages
11 328
1,184 12,161
1.0% 2.0%
9.6 10.0
5 days ago 5 days ago
OCaml Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

opam

Posts with mentions or reviews of opam. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.

termux-packages

Posts with mentions or reviews of termux-packages. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.
  • Usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2024
    usbredirect, USB drives/disks, Termux, termux-usb, QEMU, and Alpine Linux in action in April 2024 on an Android 11 phone that is not rooted --> Update-6, Update-7, Update-8, Update-9, Update-10 at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635

    "USB Network Redirection protocol description version 0.7 (19 May 2014)": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/usbredir/-/blob/main/do... (gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/usbredir/-/blob/main/docs/usb-redirection-protocol.md)

    "How to use Spice "Open remote computing"" Hans de Goede "@ T-DOSE 2011, Eindhoven": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fC3GOTHOY (www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fC3GOTHOY)

  • "Is it Worth Rooting your Phone in 2023?"
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
    Phone (not rooted) running Android 11 and Termux doing superuser/root operations on a USB flash drive connected to the phone, for example "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" --> Update-6 through Update-8 and "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-usb, usbredirect" at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (see also Update-9, Update-10, Update-11).
  • Security of an encrypted partition in a flash drive
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024
    Done on a phone that is not rooted running Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU --> "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 v1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" and "mount /dev/mapper/v1 /root/1" where "/dev/sda1" is a partition on a USB flash drive ("dev/sda") plugged in the phone: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635'cryptsetup)
  • "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-USB, usbredirect"
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
  • PinePhone review after a month of daily driving
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024
    Yes. Even without enabling root, you can install Termux[1] and have a full Linux cli environment with ssh.

    > don't understand not more people want to access their DCIM folder via sshfs

    I agree. I sync my camera folder with Syncthing[1], so as soon as I take a photo it is available on my laptop.

    1: https://termux.dev/

  • Termux: Linux Applications on Android
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    As usual don't forget that Android/Linux isn't GNU/Linux,

    https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

    https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/an...

  • GNU Guix into Termux
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
  • A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
    With this, I was able to cross compile lone for x86_64 from within the Termux environment of my aarch64 smartphone. All I had to do was obtain the Linux user space API headers for x86_64.

    I made a Termux package request for multiplatform Linux UAPI headers specifically so I could cross compile lone but unfortunately it was rejected.

    https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/16069

  • Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jul 2023
    I wonder how far you could get with the git client in termux. I got vim running at one point.

    [1] https://termux.dev/

    [2] https://packages.termux.dev/apt/termux-main/pool/main/g/git/

  • Crystal is now available on Termux AArch64
    2 projects | /r/crystal_programming | 16 Jul 2023
    Crystal can be installed with just pkg install crystal. If you have Docker, you could also clone the build environment and try building Crystal locally with scripts/run-docker.sh scripts/build-package.sh -I -a aarch64 crystal.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing opam and termux-packages you can also consider the following projects:

esy - package.json workflow for native development with Reason/OCaml

nix-on-droid - Nix-enabled environment for your Android device.

dune - A composable build system for OCaml.

UserLAnd - Main UserLAnd Repository

mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels

Code-Server - VS Code in the browser

opam-repository - Main public package repository for opam, the source package manager of OCaml.

xmrig - Monero (rx/0, rx/wow, rx/loki, defyx, rx/arq, rx/sfx, rx/keva, cn/0, cn/1, cn/2, cn/r, cn/fast, cn/half, cn/xao, cn/rto, cn/rwz, cn/zls, cn/double, cn/gpu, cn-lite/0, cn-lite/1, cn-heavy/0, cn-heavy/tube, cn-heavy/xhv, cn-pico, cn-pico/tlo, argon2/chukwa, argon2/wrkz, astrobwt) CPU/GPU miner

Cargo - The Rust package manager

chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

mouseless - A replacement for the mouse in Linux

android-tools - Android tools built for Android devices.