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termux / termux-packages

termux-packages

A package build system for Termux.

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What it is

A package build system for Termux.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

Because of some issues: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An... "Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store due to android 10…

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Observed mentions: 2015-07-18 03:40:09 UTC to 2025-04-15 06:32:06 UTC.

0510152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 2 submissions, 14 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16214
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

From the project README

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Termux packages This project contains scripts and patches to build packages for the Termux Android application. Quick how-to about Termux package management is available at Package Management. It also has info on how to fix repository is under maintenance or down errors when running apt or pkg commands. Contributing Read CONTRIBUTING.md and Developer's Wiki for more details. Community The Termux Community docs are available here. All our community members must follow the rules that are defined here and any Content Not Allowed must not be posted. Sponsors and Funders GitHub Accelerator (1)   GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (1, 2)   NLnet NGI Mobifree (1, 2)   Cloudflare (1)
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What Hacker News says

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sipofwater·Apr 15, 2025
1. "Your Phone, Your Data: How to Safeguard Your Digital Life When Entering the U.S.": https://www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeg... (www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/), https://web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.co... (web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/) 2. Is Your Password Secure? (IYPS) is a "password strength app that evaluates and rates your password's robustness, estimates crack time, and provides helpful warnings and suggestions for stronger passwords.": https://github.com/StellarSand/IYPS 3. Android KeePassDX can generate passwords and passphrases: https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX 4. "Password Generator is a simple Android applicatio
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n which generates secure passwords.": https://gitlab.com/vecturagames/passwordgenerator 5. KeePassXC has a "Password Generator": https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide , https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc , https://keepassxc.org/download , https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/x11-pa... (github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/x11-packages/keepassxc) 6. "keepassxc-cli is the command line interface for the KeePassXC password manager.": https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/latest/docs... (github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/latest/docs/man/keepassxc-cli.1.adoc), https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_command_line... (keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_command_line_tool), https://keepassxc.org 7. "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/) 8. "Avoid US or Take Burner Devices, Canadian Executives Tell Staff": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/avoid-us-... (www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/avoid-us-or-take-burner-devices-canadian-executives-tell-staff), https://archive.is/GvBLF
In EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears
westurner·Jul 25, 2024
containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 : > There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p... But Android 13+ supports rootless pKVM VMs, which podman-machine should be able to run containers in; (but only APK-installed binaries are blessed with the necessary extended filesystem attributes to exec on Android 4.4+ with SELinux in enforcing mode.) - Android pKVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architec... : > qemu + pKVM + podman-machine: > The protected kernel-based virtual machine (pKVM) is built upon the Linux KVM hypervisor, which has been extended with the ability to restrict access to the payloads running in guest virtual machines marked ‘protected’ at the time of creation. > KVM/arm64
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supports different execution modes depending on the availability of certain CPU features, namely, the Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARMv8.1 and later). - "Android 13 virtualization lets [Pixel >= 6] run Windows 11, Linux distributions" (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328692 It's faster to keep a minimal container hosting VM updated. So, podman-machine for Android in Termux might help solve for development UX on Android (and e.g. Android Studio on Android). podman-machine: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-machine.1.h...
In Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?
sipofwater·Apr 11, 2024
Done on a phone that is not rooted running Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU --> "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 v1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" and "mount /dev/mapper/v1 /root/1" where "/dev/sda1" is a partition on a USB flash drive ("dev/sda") plugged in the phone: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (cryptsetup is in Update-6 and Update-7, see also "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-usb, usbredirect")
In Security of an encrypted partition in a flash drive
matheusmoreira·Nov 6, 2023
> However when you #include <linux/...>, you not only make your software non-portable, you also make it a PITA to cross-compile as you need the kernel headers on the host machine. Yes, that is certainly a problem that I need to solve. I added some support for cross compilation in the makefile. It currently requires clang for that. ifdef TARGET ifndef UAPI $(error UAPI must be defined when cross compiling) endif TARGET.triple := $(TARGET)-unknown-linux-elf override CC := clang -target $(TARGET.triple) else TARGET := $(shell uname -m) endif With this, I was able to cross compile lone for x86_64 from within the Termux environment of my aarch64 smartphone. All I had to do was obtain the Linux user space API headers for x86_64. Getting those headers was somewhat annoying but doable, there are packages for them
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in many Linux distributions. I made a Termux package request for multiplatform Linux UAPI headers specifically so I could cross compile lone but unfortunately it was rejected. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/16069
In A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux
matheusmoreira·Sep 6, 2023
Agreed! Termux profoundly changed my life. I do all of my programming inside Termux now. I find it to be pretty comfortable too. Only thing I'm still missing is a way to build Android applications from inside Termux. We can write software for normal computers from inside themselves. Conversely, phones have always been these consumer machines, only running software produced for them and with no ability to program themselves. Feels like it's the only remaining barrier in the way of Android phones becoming truly general purpose computers. I opened an issue on their repository about packaging the Android development tools: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/17701 Someone linked a discussion where someone got it to work. I haven't had any luck setting this up though.
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