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ubuntu touch download terminal android Ubuntu Wiki. Installing Ubuntu Touch onto a supported mobile device is fairly easy, especially if you have already configured your machine for Android app development. We describe two methods for doing so -- the manual method and the automated method. Each method has pros and cons. Installing manually, with no setup. Minimal setup (assuming you are already familiar with Android app development on OSX) Can be tedious if you want to install the OS image multiple times, or if you will install different versions in the future. Obtain a mobile device supported by Ubuntu Touch Install Android Studio to obtain tools like adb and fastboot Download the proper Ubuntu Touch images for your device Manually flashing your device with adb and fastboot. Automated installation, with one-time setup. Will save time over the long run if you install the OS image multiple times. Longer one-time setup that involves installing a number of software dependencies. Obtain a mobile device supported by Ubuntu Touch Install homebrew to get access to bzr and xz Install Android Studio to obtain tools like adb and fastboot Install the go language runtime and udbflash Flash your device with Ubuntu Touch. homebrew install bzr, xz. bzr - version control system, pre-dates git, and used by Ubuntu. Read the homebrew documents for the full story, but the quick summary is to issue the following at a Terminal: After install bzr, you will get a message about modifying your python path. You should do so by modifying your. You should also double-check to ensure that your shell is reading. /.bashrc when you login. Check your. Close your Terminal session and open a new one (or manually issue source. /.bashrc ). You may now optionally configure bzr: This command is the equivalent of combining setting your username in git and setting your email in git. You can always go learn more about bzr if you wish, but it's not required at this stage. Install Android Studio. Flashing Ubuntu Touch requires the Android tools adb and fastboot . These are provided freely as part of the Android SDK. There are two options for Android development IDEs. These instructions use Android Studio (based on IntelliJ) since Google seem to be deprecating Eclipse. Download and install Android Studio. Once this is done, you will need to ensure that your $PATH includes adb and fastboot . Assuming you used the default installation settings for Android Studio, add the following to your. There is more information about setting up adb on OSX at stackoverflow. Install go language runtime. When using Ubuntu Desktop as a development environment, you would use the phablet-tools package to push files onto your mobile device. Installing those tools in Ubuntu is easy because you can use the power of apt-get install to grab all the dependencies. phablet-tools and its dependencies have not been ported to brew. Instead, we can use the go version of the tools which are more self-contained and thus easier to install in OSX. First, we must install go for OSX. The easiest way to install is to use the "Mac OS X package installer". Next, we install the golang version of phablet-flash, which is currently named udbflash. There doesn't seem to be a convention in OSX for where to store development projects. In Ubuntu, we recommend. /Projects so we adopt the Ubuntu convention for OSX. Create the following directory structure: /.bashrc one final time: Close your terminal session and reopen it or source your. You are now finally ready to install the udbflash tools. One-time setup to prepare phone for flashing. You are almost ready to flash your phone. There are some final one-time setup steps to prepare the phone. Similar to the above instructions to setting up your OSX machine, you only need to do these once. Flash Ubuntu Touch onto your device. Finally! Instead of step 4 on that page, we will use udbflash. Here is the sequence of commands verified to work. This sequence of commands may cause you to lose any data you have on the device. This sequence of commands may take a long time to run. You will see the device reboot several times into a variety of screens. Please be patient. This is sample terminal output resulting from a successful flash. Note the final line indicating success, "Rebooting into recovery to flash" Touch/Install/OSX (последним исправлял пользователь achiang 2014-01-03 20:26:55) The material on this wiki is available under a free license, see Copyright / License for details. How to install Ubuntu Touch on your Android smartphone. How to install Ubuntu Touch on your Android smartphone or tablet. If you are Linux lover, you may have already heard about Ubuntu Touch. For the uninitiated, Ubuntu Touch aka Ubuntu for smartphones is a mobile operating system which looks to bring Linux open source operating system to smartphones. The Ubuntu Touch developers community has released it in beta so if you have a supported Android smartphone or tablet, you can try the Ubuntu Touch right now. Visit the Ubuntu Touch Wiki page here to know whether your smartphone/tablet supports Ubuntu Touch. Here’s how to install Ubuntu Touch on your supported Android Smartphone/Tablet. When the Ubuntu Touch first version was announced, it needed a complex installation process involving using PC to flash Ubuntu Touch on your Android smartphone. But with the current Ubuntu Touch Beta version, it is much easier to install it. But first, you must make sure you fulfill these requirements: Supported Android smartphone like Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2013) and Nexus 10 (Check here) At least 2.7 GB of free space on your Android smartphone. Unlocked Bootloader aka rooted Android smartphone USB Debugging Enabled. ADB drivers installed on your PC. Before proceeding on flashing Ubuntu Touch on your Android smartphone, do remember that if you are unfamiliar with Ubuntu or using command line interface, you may brick your Android smartphone. Also, the current Ubuntu Touch beta version is not fully stable and may have some bugs so it may be a bad idea to install Ubuntu Touch on your main smartphone. Only try this if you have a spare smartphone or tablet that you don’t rely on. Once you have understood the risks involved, you can proceed with the tutorial. First and foremost, download and Install the official Ubuntu Dual Boot App on your Android smartphone. Remember doing this will wipe out the data that may currently stored on your Android smartphone/tablet, so make sure you have a backup of your data before you perform these steps. Once you have backed up your data follow the below steps : Download the latest dual boot installation script using this link. Now connect your Android smartphone/tablet to PC via data cable. Once your can see the connection, Now, open the terminal/command prompt and enter the following: When this is done, enter this command to run the script: ./dualboot.sh. Once you have done that, your Android smartphone is now capable of dual boot (Android + Ubuntu Touch) and can proceed with installing Ubuntu Touch on your Android smartphone. How To Install Ubuntu Touch. Go to the Ubuntu Dual Boot App installed on your smartphone and follow the below instructions. Open Ubuntu Dual Boot App. Select channel by clicking on Choose Channel Install . Choose the utopic channel, as recommended by Canonical. Make sure you tick on the bootstrap option. Click on Grant when the app requests Superuser access. Now the Ubuntu Dual Boot App will start downloading the Ubuntu Touch on your smartphone. When the download completes, tap on Reboot to Ubuntu to boot into Ubuntu Touch. That’s it! You have now installed Ubuntu Touch on your Android smartphone/tablet with dual boot. You can switch between the OS(s) anytime you like by using the power button to reboot. Open Ubuntu Touch to all Android applications ! Is there some technical reason Halium7 devices are not supported? Those still seem to make up the majority of Ubports supported devices. Nexus5 (dev) & OnePlus3 (dev) I am impressed by the rapid progress, which is being made here. Is there a way to support it without a credit card? I have already been asked a few times to share the repo of the new Anbox. Apparently there are people who would like to follow the development process. Greetings, Rudi & Steve. @povoq The new Anbox depends on treble project and it's enabled since Android 8, and the devs dont have any halium 7 device to test. Rudi and Me are pleased to announce that the Vollaphone is now the first device to officially support the new Anbox service. As such, we are pleased to offer you the opportunity to test it on your Vollaphone and get your feedback. In the future, the kernel will be gradually extended to other Halium 9 and 10 devices. The installation procedure is described below: https://xray2000.gitlab.io/anbox/ Use now your favourite Android applications on your Vollaphone with Ubuntu Touch! Hope to hear from you soon! Redmi Note 7 stable Nexus 5 stable If God has a computer, it must be a GNU/Linux. @stanwood Thanks to you both and the dev for all the work and effort so far and the regular updates. In the future, the kernel will be gradually extended to other Halium 9 and 10 devices. Next step after this one, open all UBports supported devices to all Android applications ? 2015-Now : Meizu MX4 (ubp OTA-17) for daily use Spare : Nexus 5 (ubp OTA-17) Use now your favourite Android applications on your Vollaphone with Ubuntu Touch! Can you please let me know if the patches I added to the Redmi Note 7 Pro ( violet ) kernel are enough to get Anbox working? @mardy The ones that palasaty have added would be fine.