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  • cmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    44·
    2 months ago

    I just need sudo and a package manager

    The promise of the smart phone was a mini computer in your pocket. I think we got it, but then the vendor locked the user out of admin on their own bought and paid hardware 🤷‍♂️

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
      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/S@ani.socialEnglish
        5·
        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

        • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
          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/S@ani.socialEnglish
            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

            • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
              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!