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Termux With Or Without Root #2320

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If your device is rooted, you can grant superuser (root) privileges by using tsu or sudo from package tsu. Root use is optional and application is primarily targeted at non-root use in general.

So every time you install the application for the first time there is a notification that appears to choose to use root mode, or without root, or both.

Useless and dangerous:

  • As mentioned above, you can grant root privileges through either su or tsu (preferred).
  • Package manager is locked down for non-root use exclusively for obvious reasons: under root it messing up SELinux labels and ownership + certain chance of trashing whole /data partition (hopefully you understand that Termux packaging qua…

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