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  • DerinEnglish
    17•2 months ago

    Try Termux, it’s great.

    While it doesn’t get you sudo, it does get you a package manager and a decent amount of programs.

    I use it and rclone to sync my cell phone’s photos to a S3 bucket.

    • Ace! _SL/SEnglish
      6•2 months ago

      You can totally use sudo if you’re rooted. Using su also allows you to acces your native shell instead of Termuxs

      • DerinEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        You’re totally right, but I wasn’t assuming they had a rooted phone.

        Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

        • Ace! _SL/SEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

          I did the same, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

          I don’t know for sure, but if I hat to guess I’d say that Termux uses chroot to emulate a more Linuxy experience by changing your root to /data/data/com.termux/files/ with it’s own bin, etc, lib and so on directories

          Using su you escape that chroot and start using your roms root directory at /

          I might be totally wrong with this, but that should hopefully clarify the way it behaves

          • DerinEnglish
            2•2 months ago

            Aah, okay.

            I don’t mind the chroot too much, especially as you can just use Termux’s termux-setup-storage script for accessing files.

            But, yeah, I can see how one would want to use su for that!