mfdgaming/ubuntu-in-termux

This is a script by which you can install Ubuntu in your termux application without a rooted device

ubuntu-in-termux

What's This?

This is a script that allows you to install Ubuntu in your termux application without a rooted device

Updates

• Updated to ubuntu 22.04

Important

• If you have to use ubuntu in termux with a x86/i*86 architecture or prefer ubuntu 19.10 you can use this branch -> https://github.com/MFDGaming/ubuntu-in-termux/tree/ubuntu19.10

• If you get an error message that says "Fatal Kernel too old" you have to uncomment the line that reads "command+=" -k 4.14.81"" (remove the # that is located in front of the line) in the "startubuntu.sh" file

Installation steps

1. Update termux: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
2. Install wget: apt-get install wget -y
3. Install proot: apt-get install proot -y
4. Install git: apt-get install git -y
5. Go to HOME folder: cd ~
6. Download script: git clone https://github.com/MFDGaming/ubuntu-in-termux.git
7. Go to script folder: cd ubuntu-in-termux
8. Give execution permission: chmod +x ubuntu.sh
9. Run the script: ./ubuntu.sh -y
10. Now just start ubuntu: ./startubuntu.sh

ubuntu-in-termux's Issues

Proot can't change root directory

proot warning: can't sanitize binding "ubuntu-fs/tmp": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't chdir("/root/.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot error: '/usr/bin/env' not found (root = /data/data/com.termux/files/home/ubuntu-in-termux/ubuntu-fs, cwd = /, $PATH=(null))
fatal error: see proot --help.

Cannot open /proc/stat: Permission denied when accessing top and htop

Hello,
I've noticed running top command produces:
Cannot open /proc/stat

After that, I installed htop and when I run it, it splits the same error:
Cannot open /proc/stat

This is my system information:
Linux localhost 4.4.23+ #1 SMP PREEMPT ... aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

question about proot & pie

I'm a bit confused.

after my note 8 was upgraded to pie, all my proot ubuntu installations were broken, as I couldn't "apt update" anymore. l was told it was proot.

To my surprise, I installed your ubuntu and everything is working fine....

Fatal error proot help

This is my error:proot warning: can't sanitize binding "ubuntu-fs/tmp": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't chdir("/root/.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot error: '/usr/bin/env' not found (root = /data/data/com.termux/files/home/ubuntu-in-termux/ubuntu-fs, cwd = /, $PATH=(null))
fatal error: see proot --help.
$

Apt upgrade issue

how to I resolve this issue
Setting in Start via TCSAFLUSH for stdin failed! - tcsetattr (13: Permission denied)
Also I hope the dpkg warning doesn't do have:
Preparing to unpack .../archives/apt_1.8.1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking apt (1.8.1) over (1.8.0) ...
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libapt-private.so.0.0' size has changed from 26 to 23
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/https' size has changed from 18 to 4
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror+copy' size has changed from 18 to 6
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror+file' size has changed from 18 to 6
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror+ftp' size has changed from 18 to 6
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror+http' size has changed from 18 to 6
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror+https' size has changed from 18 to 6
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/methods/ssh' size has changed from 18 to 3
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/lib/apt/planners/dump' size has changed from 18 to 15
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz' size has changed from 34 to 31
dpkg: warning: symbolic link '/usr/share/doc/apt/changelog.gz' size has changed from 34 to 29
Setting up apt (1.8.1) ...

VNC server

How can I setup vnc server for ubuntu?
I have vncviewer and I made an account but it's always a black screen

Edit: I tried this https://hackernoon.com/installation-of-vnc-server-on-ubuntu-1cf035370bd3 as recommended but it says it can't find those packages

What is the default password?

chsh -s zsh need input password, what is it?

Bash inatall.sh not working Says No Internet met connection any solution? Please Help

Bash inatall.sh not working Says No Internet met connection any solution? Please Help

Vncserver error

Please help to slove this issue[]

proot i/o error

When I run vncserver on Huawei Honor device, the console terminates vncserver (i can't connect remote desktop) and output proot i/o error message like this:

However, when i do same thing on ubuntu 18.04 in termux, it runs normally and i can connect successfully.
Can anybody help me? thanks.

ALSA Error in Ubuntu chroot

I'm getting the following error message when I use espeak , espeak "Hello World!"

ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4693:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4693:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4693:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5181:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2642:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
...

Using mpv or festival will also get ALSA errors.
However, these tools work fine in termux.
Could anyone give me a hand ?

why symlink is not working

I tried symlinking start.sh file to /bin
Still it can't start. The file is linked but can't execute. Can we make start.sh executable from anywhere?
Thank you for the work!

./startubuntu.sh

script executed successfully
But running ./startubuntu.sh come with t'his error
"./startubuntu.sh
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "ubuntu-fs/tmp": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't chdir("/root/.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot error: '/usr/bin/env' not found (root = /data/data/com.termux/files/home/ubuntu-fs, cwd = /, $PATH=(null))
fatal error: see proot --help. "
I have tried running the script severally,same error
Pls what can do...

proot warning

Hi
I met this issue when I run the last command ./start.sh

proot warning: can't sanitize binding "/sys/": No such file or directory

Start error

When i type
$ ./start.sh
I get following error

/usr/bin/env: '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
Can any one help me

Comment démarrer vncserver dans termux pour utiliser kali

problems when trying to install ubuntu.sh resolf.conf

(I fixed it) Run Script ./ubuntu.sh is not working

MFDGaming, i am getting an issue during
Runing the script ./ubuntu.sh . It show's unknown architecture.
My architecture is i686

https://github.com/MFDGaming/ubuntu-in-termux.git

Ubuntu

Error: Invalid system call

Hey. A binary file compiled with static libraries in this Ubuntu, run in other applications only on android 5-7. I tried to run the program compiled by gcc-9 from Ubuntu in another terminal emulator, it produces this error: invalid system call. On android 6.0 marshmallow, everything works fine. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks.

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proot error: unkown option "--link2symlink"

~/ubuntu-in-termux$ sudo ./startubuntu.sh
proot error: unknown option '--link2symlink'.
fatal error: see proot --help.

Fix resolv.conf is not working

MFDGaming fix resolv.conf is not working.plz fix it .

Access sdcard or storage from the root@localhost:~#

Pls how do I access my system storage or sdcard from the ubuntu terminal.
root@localhost:# ls -la
total 40
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 07:11 .
drwx------. 21 root root 4096 Aug 31 09:10 ..
-rw-------. 1 root root 148 Aug 31 09:01 .bash_history
-rw-------. 1 root root 3106 Aug 6 2018 .bashrc
-rw-------. 1 root root 148 Aug 6 2018 .profile
root@localhost:#
Just like this in the termux terminal
root@localhost:~# exit
logout
$ cd
$ pwd
/data/data/com.termux/files/home
$ ls
storage ubuntu
$

Proof error

Each time I try to do ./startubuntu.sh I get proot
error
$ ./startubuntu.sh
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "ubuntu-fs/tmp": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't chdir("/root/.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot error: '/usr/bin/env' not found (root = /data/data/com.termux/files/home/ubuntu-in-termux/ubuntu-fs, cwd = /, $PATH=(null))
fatal error: see proot --help.

I also tried connecting to a vpn it still doesn't work. Any fixes for this?

Unable to delete ubuntu-in-termux directory and its sub-directories

Hello,

I've just uninstalled the ubuntu-in-termux by running rm -rf ubuntu-in-termux to remove its directory. However, the directory is still present and wasn't removed and zsh displays exit code 1 after running that command. By exploring sub-dirs., it turned out that I don't have any permissions to read from or write on there. That little dir. really bugs me and I don't know how to remove that. Did I uninstall ubuntu-in-termux correctly?

PRoot problems

After the security patch of June the proot give error saying that some files don't exists, almost like you never created a proot

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I can't connect this termux using ssh client

I want to using ssh to connect to this ubuntu, but i failed.
using my pc with the same LAN, how can i do it?

thanks.

It has error when run ./startubuntu.sh

When I run ./startubuntu.sh, it report such error:

$ ./startubuntu.sh
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "/sys": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "ubuntu-fs/tmp": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "/sdcard": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "/mnt": No such file or directory
proot warning: can't chdir("/root/.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot error: '/usr/bin/env' not found (root = /home/ubuntu-in-termux/ubuntu-fs, cwd = /, $PATH=(null))
fatal error: see `proot --help`.
proot error: trying to remove a directory outside of '/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/tmp', please report this error.

Installation problem for i686

I reinstalled termux and again tryed to install ubuntu.but its does't worked.I followed every step perfectly.plz fix it

Android 9 git tcsetattr Permission denied

Hi,
I got an error while installing git package using

apt install git

it says ...

E: Setting in Start via TCSAFLUSH for stdin failed! - tcsetattr (13: Permission denied)

I hope you could help. Thanks.

Error in installing ubuntu in termux

I have done everything thing, proot git ,wget..installed Ubuntu but when i try to run that file it says........
proot warning: can't sanitize binding "ubuntu-fs/tmp": No such file or directory proot warning: can't chdir("/root/.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot error: '/usr/bin/env' not found (root = /data/data/com.termux/files/home/ubuntu-in-termux/ubuntu-fs, cwd = /, $PATH=(null))
fatal error: see proot --help.

Plzzz help

Add gui support

I want to run opencv with ubuntu. How do I add a gui support.

Hy everyone

ubuntu.sh

Android 10, "Permission denied" in a SD card

Android 10 upgrade turned out to be such a bad idea because I lost the writing permission in my external SD card.

Is there a way to fix it?

Missing i386 base image for Ubuntu 20.04

Line 32 of ubuntu.sh as shown below should be replaced by a conditional/an error message stating that there is no usable base image for architecture i386 (at least as of Ubuntu 20.04, older releases should still work):

ubuntu-in-termux/ubuntu.sh

Line 32 in b19489a

x86|i*86) ARCHITECTURE=i386;;

Root

Neofetch showing Incorrect uptime

Neofetch shows incorrect uptime from booting time.
Any ways to correct that.
Again executing "uptime" raise error "/proc not mounted"

Error: mount: /sys/fs/cgroup: permission denied.

When I tried to start docker service, it's failed and got a error message "mount: /sys/fs/cgroup: permission denied.".
commands to reproduce

apt-get update
apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
add-apt-repository "deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu disco stable"
apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli
service docker start

It seems like I cannot change /sys/fs/cgroup in ubuntu-in-termux. And I found command+=" -b /sys" in ubuntu.sh which means /sys is linked to the real adroid system directory.
I want to know if I can ONLY set /sys/fs/cgroup to a temp directory that can be changed by user.
As android's kernel doesn't provide cgroups support, this change actually does not take effect to system but it can solve the problem such as lacking of some cgroups.

Device Info

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 (MSM 8996 Pro)
Android 9.0 (Mokee ROM)
Linux localhost 3.18.140-mokee-g32d4dd5ec223 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 5 03:53:43 CST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu19.10-in-termux

Download speeds too slow, can I use official Ubuntu repos?

So, basically the downloads are like of 20kbps for me. So, I wanted to know if there was some sort of mirror for this or can I just straight up use the official Ubuntu repos. Any idea?

Nmap cannot found interface

Nmap cannot found interface , showing error
Route_dst_netlink: can’t find interface “rmnet_data2”

.

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libssl1.0-dev package depreciated

Hello, thank you for your efforts. I need libssl1.0-dev and libssl1.0.2, but these are not available. Is it possible to add them to the packages? Or can I add them manually?

I want create a Termux distro repo

I want create a Termux repository with all distros available to download and I want modify and add your script

Just a random problem

please solve this problem make a tutorial video on YouTube

How to install packages

How can I install packages. When I try apt install it always says package not found.

Ffmpeg mit working

libx264 not found

apt/apt-get not working with proxychains4

Hello, this Ubuntu-in-Termux is wonderful. Just wanted to point out some minor issues. I have set up a proxychains4 on my Ubuntu-in-termux to work with a socks5 proxy server. Most commands like wget, git and curl work fine with proxychains4. However installing packages with "proxychains4 apt install [package]" or "proxychains4 apt-get install [package]" is not working. It shows a strange bug trying to connect to port 0 on the repo url rather than port 80. I was able to remedy this issue by installing aptitude. Initially aptitude was also having an issue not wanting to update/upgrade/install throwing an error:
failed to rename /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates to /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old - save_selection_list (1: Operation not permitted)
What I did here was to create the file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates (it was missing).
Running "touch /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates" did the trick. Then I had a functioning aptitude which surprisingly worked perfectly well with the "proxychains4" command. Thus I am able to install packages through socks proxy with commands like "proxychains4 aptitude install [package]". Just wanted to share this for others that might need to install packages through proxy on their awesome Ubuntu in Termux.

Basic commands not available once I'm root user

Hi,
I ran the commands without pb and I get "root@localhost:~#" when running the last one: ./startubuntu.sh

Pb: I don't even have nano installed anymore :
bash: nano: command not found

Do I have to reinstall all the packages?

Thank you.

Sorry for the possible dumb/linux newbie question :)