/proot-distro

An utility for managing installations of the Linux distributions in Termux.

Primary LanguageShellGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

A Bash script for managing proot'ed Linux distributions in Termux.

For now it supports installation of these distributions:

  • Alpine Linux
  • Arch Linux / Arch Linux ARM
  • Debian Buster
  • Fedora 33
  • Kali Nethunter (rootless)
  • Parrot OS (LTS)
  • Ubuntu (18.04 / 20.04)

Usage example

Install package in Termux:

pkg install proot-distro

Example on how to install Ubuntu and launch shell:

proot-distro install ubuntu-20.04
proot-distro login ubuntu-20.04

You may create a distribution installation with custom name:

proot-distro install --override-alias ubuntu-testing ubuntu-20.04
proot-distro login ubuntu-testing

This will allow to have multiple installations of same distribution.

Fixing dpkg errors

  1. udisks2 
    dpkg: error processing package udisks2 (--configure):
 installed udisks2 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Solution: 
    rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/udisks2.postinst
dpkg --configure -a
  2. libfprint-2-2 
    dpkg: error processing package libfprint-2-2:arm64 (--configure):
 installed libfprint-2-2:arm64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Solution: 
    rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libfprint0:*.postinst
dpkg --configure -a
  3. fprintd 
    rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/fprintd.postinst
dpkg --configure -a