DebDroid - Debian for Android OS!
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.
This script also checks for updates so you can update it anytime by downloading it, this checks updates every time you open Debian container.
You can install DebDroid by entering:
curl --location https://github.com/zavocc/debdroid/raw/master/debdroid.sh > debdroid
mv debdroid $PREFIX/bin
chmod +x $PREFIX/bin/debdroid
You can install Debian in just a few keystrokes by doing:
debdroid install
This will install Debian Buster. If you want to install other than Debian Buster, you can specify a suite by doing
debdroid install --suite sid
or
debdroid install --suite oldstable
If you have 64-bit processor, you can force install 32-bit version of Debian with --32
debdroid install --32 --suite sid
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 launch
Or to enter root shell:
debdroid launch --asroot
If you want to enter Debian other than shell, you can pass commands by doing:
debdroid launch -- [command]
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> > /.proot.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
DebDroid will have GALLIUM_DRIVER environment variable synchronized from the host to use the same rendering mode in Debian. If the GALLIUM_DRIVER is not exported to Termux to specific value, it will use llvmpipe to it's default OpenGL rendering. Setting export GALLIUM_DRIVER=virpipe in Termux would automatically use that inside Debian guest.
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 > /.proot.debdroid/binfmt/corrosive-session
And restart your shell.
To Enable it back, type:
echo 1 > /.proot.debdroid/binfmt/corrosive-session
If you don't want to use Debian anymore, you can do
debdroid purge
Keep in mind that if you do termux-reset then your Debian container will not be deleted.
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