DebDroid - Debian for Android OS!
Actually, this is a improved version of DebDroid, but uses the script-based and much more fresher than the old one, and has more refined features like improved installer interface, supporting multiple installations and much more
DebDroid is an Debian Installer for the Android OS, this method of installing Debian on Android does not require root access and you can run your favorite Linux Applications Easily
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems
-- Linus Torvalds
DebDroid will install Debian Container within termux, creates a fresh debian prefix for the location of the container, usually it will be placed in:
/data/data/com.termux/files/debian
It lives outside the $PREFIX directory so if you decide to erase your broken $PREFIX directory, then your debian container will remain intact, and is portable,
This script also self-updating so you can update it anytime by downloading it, this checks updates every time you open fresh Debian Container,
You can install DebDroid by entering:
curl --location https://git.io/Jt68D > debdroid.sh && chmod 777 debdroid.sh
You can install Debian in just a few keystrokes by doing:
debdroid.sh install
This will install Debian Buster, If you want to install other than Debian Buster, you can specify a suite by doing
debdroid.sh install sid
or
debdroid.sh install oldstable
A list of supported releases can be listed by typing debdroid install list
During Installation, it will update and upgrade the Debian System if necessary and installs required packages
it will prompt you to enter your required information, this is necessary to capture user input, otherwise it will fallback to the following default credentials:
- User:
user - Password:
passw0rd
In case you interrupted your installation, you can do debdroid.sh reconfigure or debdroid.sh configure although this can be used to refresh Debian Container or to update it
You can start Debian by typing:
debdroid.sh launch
Or to enter root shell:
debdroid.sh launch-asroot
If you want to enter debian other than shell, you can pass commands by doing:
debdroid.sh launch [command]
You can customize your debian container needs with the command debianize, it allows you to install desired packages and desktop environments you need
If you want to install xfce, you can type debianize xfce4-desktop although if you want minimal one, you may use debianize xfce4-core and you can start the desktop environment with startxfce4 command, it will ask you for your resolution if running it first time
You can list of other tasks with debianize list command
If you want to install chromium easily, you can do debianize chromium and you can run chromium command or launching it via desktop menu without needing to specify --no-sandbox
Although you will get problems when using it on armhf although it may work with some effort
You can add users with the command addusers so you can create user account and add the user to sudoers access, syntax is:
sudo addusers <user>
You can set the default user account by echoing the value of your user
echo <username> > /var/debdroid/userinfo.rc
and restart to switch to new user account, although you may use adduser or useradd if you want
You can initialize sounds and transmit it via Termux's Pulseaudio, to enable sounds you may open xsdl app and keep it running, no need to configure PULSE_SERVER inside the guest
Although if you want to do it in Termux Way, you need to enter this commands in termux
~ $ pulseaudio --start --exit-idle-time=-1
~ $ pacmd load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1 auth-anonymous=1
If possible, you need to restart the container
It's also possible to run host commands in the guest, and this can be used to run programs which are not available to the debian repositories, this implementation is like from the feature of WSL
In some cases this may conflict with some dependencies or programs that is optimized for the usage with Termux and may cause some problems like compiling programs and having different libc linker, due to the way on how they're set up between them, or may impose security risks, if you don't want to happen, you can disable it by typing:
echo 0 > /var/debdroid/binfmt/corrosive-session
And restart your shell,
To Enable it back, type:
echo 1 > /var/debdroid/binfmt/corrosive-session
If you don't want to use debian anymore, you can do
debdroid.sh purge
Keep in mind that if you do termux-reset then your debian container will not be deleted, although the next time you do that will do a dependency install if possible
Sometimes, an update can be useful like newer bugfixes, to do that, a simple debdroid reconfigure will do the trick, but this also refreshes your Debian System
You can bug reports by creating an issue or join my Discord Server,