Okay, maybe not so dull, but it was more hoops than I figured I’d have to jump through, but I finally got the basics all set up and working!

🐧

Edit: I basically followed this guide:

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment

Plus, if you don’t have an external keyboard, I highly suggest the Hackers Keyboard app.

Edit 2, some semi quick testing…

  • Synaptic ✅
  • Firefox ✅
  • GIMP ✅
  • VLC ✅
  • gedit ✅
  • ghex ✅
  • LibreOffice 🚫
    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      9 days ago

      Hey, it’s on you if you wanna root your own device. This is the simple beauty of Termux, it runs in an isolated environment on non-rooted Android.

      Within Termux itself, you can do whatever you want, sudo not required. You can’t access / though, you can pretty much only access ~

      Unless you know the exact path to your SD card or other storage, that works too…

      sudo does exist though, but mostly just as a compatibility placeholder. Within Termux, you’re basically running as ‘root’, no other user accounts, but not true root, you can’t access the whole filesystem, unless you’re actually already rooted…

      • FukOui@lemmy.zip
        2·
        9 days ago

        I was thinking of converting a phone into a mini server / NAS the other day but I needed sudo to configure some stuff (firewalls, perms, security, rtc) and found it a hassle to root my device

        Dabbled a bit of termux but found it limited to be taken seriously for server workload. Great for poc and personal computing though