prootie

Supercharges your PRoot experience.

• Login 50x faster than proot-distro.
• 0 knowledge required to use with the TUI script.
• Install while downloading rootfs.
• Install distro to any directory you like.
• Outputs standard rootfs archive.
• Use with ease, only 3 commands.
• supportes Android and linux.
• Clone rootfs with command archive and install used together.
• built-in commands in Termux and Anotherterm are supported with option --host-utils of command login.

Command	Mean [s]	Min [s]	Max [s]	Relative
proot-distro login alpine -- pwd	1.999 ± 0.046	1.892	2.074	50.40 ± 10.03
prootie.sh login $HOME/.distros/alpine -- pwd	0.337 ± 0.023	0.307	0.387	8.51 ± 1.78
prootie login $HOME/.distros/alpine -- pwd	0.040 ± 0.008	0.027	0.067	1.00

Compile from source

On Termux:

cc -o "${PREFIX}/bin/prootie" prootie.c -s -Os
cp prootie_tui "${PREFIX}/bin/prootie_tui"

On Linux:

cc -o prootie prootie.c -s -Os
sudo mv prootie /usr/local/bin/prootie
sudo cp prootie_tui /usr/bin/prootie_tui

Manage distros with TUI script

make sure you have gum installed

prootie_tui

Manage distros manually

Install rootfs

set -eu
arch=$(uname -m)
version=3.20.3
version_main=$(echo "${version}" | grep -Eo "^[0-9]\.[0-9]+")
archive_url=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v${version_main}/releases/${arch}/alpine-minirootfs-${version}-${arch}.tar.gz
rootfs="${HOME}/.distros/alpine"

mkdir -p "$(dirname "${rootfs}")"
curl -SsLk "${archive_url}" | gzip -d | prootie -v install "${rootfs}"

Login rootfs

prootie login "${HOME}/.distros/alpine"

Archive rootfs

prootie archive "${HOME}/.distros/alpine" | gzip > alpine.tar.gz

Clone rootfs

prootie archive "${HOME}/.distros/alpine" | prootie install "${HOME}/.distros/alpine2"

Tested distros

distro	status	notes
almalinux (9)	OK
alt (p11)	OK
alpine (3.20)	OK
amazonlinux	OK
archlinux	OK
debian (bookworm)	OK
voidlinux (musl)	OK	vi /etc/passwd to change login shell to bash
fedora (40)	OK
ubuntu (noble)	OK	touch /root/.hushlogin
busybox (1.36.1)	OK
gentoo (openrc)	OK
kali	OK
rockylinux (9)	OK
openwrt (23.05)	OK

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