termux-packages VS TermuxArch

This fully reflects my own Android experience (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Paul+Lutus) -- writing Android apps is by no means a write-and-forget experience. As time goes by more of my apps are dropped from the platform from my unwillingness to drop everything and rewrite code for each new Android version.

My original intent was to put my free, open-source apps on the platform, much as I had done before Android existed. But no -- Android doesn't work that way.

My best-known Android app is SSHelper (https://arachnoid.com/android/SSHelper/), a Secure Shell server meant for file transfers. Still work perfectly, dropped some time ago.

TankCalc (https://arachnoid.com/android/TankCalcAndroid/), same story. It's a well-known multi-platform app tank farm managers use to profile storage tanks. Still works, dropped from the platform.

And not just mine. Many other free, first-rate Android apps -- Termux (https://termux.dev/) comes to mind -- have been driven off the platform by Google's onerous demands and commercial focus.

It's as though a wall is going up between people who like programming and people who like money.

If you don’t have Termux installed, download it from the official source. Once installed, open Termux and update it with the following command:

No, but yes.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packag...

I just installed the package called `racket` from Termux's upstream, and it seems that they're using racket-minimal for that. But of a gotcha, but at least it doesn't seem like there's a bug.

containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support:

> There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p...

But Android 13+ supports rootless pKVM VMs, which podman-machine should be able to run containers in; but only APK-installed binaries are blessed with the necessary extended filesystem attributes to exec on Android 4.4+ with SELinux in enforcing mode.

- Android pKVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architec... :

> qemu + pKVM + podman-machine: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 :

> The protected kernel-based virtual machine (pKVM) is built upon the Linux KVM hypervisor, which has been extended with the ability to restrict access to the payloads running in guest virtual machines marked ‘protected’ at the time of creation.

> KVM/arm64 supports different execution modes depending on the availability of certain CPU features, namely, the Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARMv8.1 and later).

- "Android 13 virtualization lets [Pixel >= 6] run Windows 11, Linux distributions" (2022)

Not from PlayStore, but apparently everyone has English reading comprehension problems and wants to write a comment anyway.

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

Termux includes a Terminal, its own Linux distro, and an apt-like package repo and manager. However, I prefer to install another distro on top of it, like Arch.

They are made when Arch Linux is installed with TermuxArch and also with the bloom skeleton option, setupTermuxArch bl.

TermuxArch publishes aur helper installers that work on Android smartphones:

Would you like to try to setup KVM? If so please open an issue here. If we are successfull r/WMCBTech30 will probably state our work as find it irrelevant and unhelpful as they already have.

setupTermuxArch qemu installs alternate architectures with two taps. The command csystemctl installs a systemd replacement that appears to work as expected.

This was achieved through Termux and the TermuxArch script

references: a) https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch/issues/25 b) https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch/issues?q=is%3Aissue+qemu

This commit added a handfull of aur builders two days ago that are now easily accessable! makeauraclegit makeaurpopularpackages makeaurbauerbill makeaurpuyo makeaurfakeroottcp makeaurrepoctl makeaurghcuphs makeaurrepofish makeaurhelpers makeaurrustup makeaurpacaur makeaurshellcheckbin makeaurpackagequery makeaurtllocalmgr makeaurpakku makeaurtrizen makeaurparu makeaurutils makeaurpbget makeauryaah makeaurpikaur makeauryay makeaurpikaur-git makeauryayim makeaurpkgbuilder

GHCup-hs works flawlessly in TermuxArch; THANK YOU! Did you know that Haskell can play music from code? Tap here to see video search results.

GHCup-hs works flawlessly in https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch THANK YOU TERMUX!