i wanted to kno if i could run ubuntu on my windows pc?? i dont need to use it rite now but i would like to learn how to use it in case i ever need it... thanks
evo401 said:
i wanted to kno if i could run ubuntu on my windows pc?? i dont need to use it rite now but i would like to learn how to use it in case i ever need it... thanks
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Yes you can you can either dual boot windows and linux or run it in a virtual machine or you can use a special installer that essentially allows you to install linux like any other windows application and uninstall it when you want to get rid of it.
I assume you want to get into android development maybe compile android from source. I'd recommend ubuntu and until the kinks are worked out I'd go with ubuntu 11.10 which you can get here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/
Information on dual booting windows and linux:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/10/27/dual-boot-ubuntu-11-10-windows-7-on-a-pc-with-2-hard-drives/2/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Running linux in a virtual machine:
https://www.virtualbox.org
Install linux using special installer (wubi):
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/wubi.exe
Hope this helps you if you need any help feel free to ask or if you want some guides on developing android on linux (compiling from source, kernels, etc.) I can help with that to
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sweet!!!! good looking out bro!! just what i was looking for :good:
evo401 said:
sweet!!!! good looking out bro!! just what i was looking for :good:
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Always glad to help let me know like I said if you want some guides on compiling linux on android and suff like that ... oh what the heck here are some guides:
Official Google guide to building Android from source on Linux
Official Google guide to building Android Kernel from source on Linux
Build Cyanogenmod from Source
How to use Github for Android Development
Basic commands for Linux and Android
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The easiest way to install Ubuntu is to use Wubi. It lets you install Ubuntu like a regular application in Windows.
- Download Wubi
- Choose Ubuntu in the list
- Click install
- It'll download and install Ubuntu for you
- Reboot and choose Ubuntu at boot
- You're done.
If you want to remove Ubuntu from your computer, you simply boot into Windows and uninstall it like a regular application If you decide to permanently keep it i recommend you install it by itself on a separate partition. That way it'll run better. But if you just plan to try it and you're not planning on running some heavy stuff (games etc.), then Wubi will do it just fine.
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I have installed Ubuntu on my android phone by following the nexusonehacks.net guide. All is working well. The reason I am creating this thread is because in nexusonehacks.net guide he mentions that he got his ubuntu.img from some guys at the xda forums.
I am wanting to get an ARM img of mint linux (LXDE version) and while I have spent countless hours trying to figure out how to install mint linux with an ARM emulator it appears to be above my linux knowledge.
I know that mint linux is based on ubuntu and should have the latest linux kernel and therefor has ARM support built in already, so that is not a problem, no need to compile a kernel with support for ARM.
Basically I am just looking for someone who is running an ARM emulator or has an ARM based laptop to install mint linux (LXDE version) and do a disk dump of the HDD into an image file I can then use to replace the ubuntu.img file I am currently using on my phone.
If this would be a simple task for someone to do and upload the image, I would be most appreciative.
It would be best if I could have the dev who provided the original ubuntu.img file to nexusonehacks.net do the dd of mint linux as I am sure he knows all of the details of how to do a proper dd for use on an android phone. If anyone can point me in the direction of that particular dev, that would be great, thanks!
Buddy of mine was working on gentoo for his N900, which is an ARM proc. Ubuntu has an emulator for that, he said that it seems only ubuntu does, but you run a virtual machine with an ARM emulator. Thing is that I'm not sure if a standard ARM emulator would work too well, the chip on the N1 has some extra stuff on it apparently
It sounds to me complicated because Linux Mint is not distributed for ARM...
Take Debian
I know I did not helped, I just gived my advice on how to get Linux on Android phones: get debian which is available for tons of architectures, including ARM, natively.
Well, it doesn't really work that way. If the distribution doesn't have their packages built for ARM then it's not going to work. Yes the kernel supports ARM but it still has to be built specifically for the processor it's going to run on. That goes for most other software packages too.
Getting debian and LXDE running on the N1 is pretty easy to do. There is a guide buried a few pages down in this forum. Also, I'm hoping to release a script to help automate much of the install soon.
jairuncaloth said:
Well, it doesn't really work that way. If the distribution doesn't have their packages built for ARM then it's not going to work. Yes the kernel supports ARM but it still has to be built specifically for the processor it's going to run on. That goes for most other software packages too.
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I guess you were talking about Ubuntu, not Debian?
jairuncaloth said:
Getting debian and LXDE running on the N1 is pretty easy to do.
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Very easy: Debian is available for ARM:
[alpha][amd64][arm][armel][hppa][i386][ia64][mips][mipsel][powerpc][sparc][s390][source][multi-arch]
jairuncaloth said:
There is a guide buried a few pages down in this forum. Also, I'm hoping to release a script to help automate much of the install soon.
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I would love to see that.
Well this pretty much answers my question. Thank you very much. At least I have ubuntu running on it, I will be happy with that.
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Hello, my question is what is the best Linux OS to develop android for our lovely x8
According to the grapevine Google is using Ubuntu amd64 for Android development.
i use linux mint as my main OS. it works for me. especially for when im using android SDK and NDK in terminal. but you can use ubuntu. but i dont like ubuntu
I have used Ubuntu before as my main os, it was running quite well so I'll try with it, thanks.
Can't we just develop Android using windows??
azyar said:
Can't we just develop Android using windows??
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Yeah, what's the difference?
azyar said:
Can't we just develop Android using windows??
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Chris95X8 said:
Yeah, what's the difference?
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Well... I think the question of the thread was:
[Q]What Linux OS for developing Android?
The question was NOT:
[Q]What Linux OS for developing Android Apps?
Like it or not, but you need a Linux system to get the stunt of Android compilation done. While I'm sure that you can edit the source of Android in Notepad++ in Windows as well I don't think you can compile Android directly in Windows.
Normal application development can be done in Windows, Linux or OS X - the SDK/NDK is available for all three of them.
Hi, I would like to run linux instead android, -WOLF- from 4pda.ru have done this with his samsung galaxy spica and I would like to do the same for our OB.Here is origina thread on 4pda.ru but it is all in russan.I tried to make a kernel with frambuffer console and sdcard as root directory but it failed.So anyone who can cook kernels please help.Then, when kernel is done we will try to run linux(ubuntu, andstrom, etc.).
Thank u!
Here is angstroms LFS for abstract smarphone and people wich port it to their devices
suleymanovemil8 said:
Hi, I would like to run linux instead android, -WOLF- from 4pda.ru have done this with his samsung galaxy spica and I would like to do the same for our OB.Here is origina thread on 4pda.ru but it is all in russan.I tried to make a kernel with frambuffer console and sdcard as root directory but it failed.So anyone who can cook kernels please help.Then, when kernel is done we will try to run linux(ubuntu, andstrom, etc.).
Thank u!
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I had installed successfully UBUNTU with VNC but result was not one can use daily so removed in one hour, though good for experiment.
And our OB processor is not enough powerful you can throw Linux. Minimum requirement for UBUNTU is dual core processor.
Search UBUNTU on mobile, or UBUNTU;s official site.
cant we run win 95 ?
pkb_always4u said:
I had installed successfully UBUNTU with VNC but result was not one can use daily so removed in one hour, though good for experiment.
And our OB processor is not enough powerful you can throw Linux. Minimum requirement for UBUNTU is dual core processor.
Search UBUNTU on mobile, or UBUNTU;s official site.
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I don't mean linux on androi, I mean installing linux instead of android and I'd like to use Angstrom and if galaxy spica and gio can run it our OB will do it !And it doesn't requires prosessors clock and a lot of ram because there is no android, it runs along as native os.And i know about ubuntu for mobile, it runs on android and it is like a linux on android.
BeBeLKhaN said:
cant we run win 95 ?
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No.We can run linux because we can take android's linux kernel.Android is very low weight linux.
First we need just enable framebuffer console in kernel, this will help us with starting linux ::
suleymanovemil8 said:
Hi, I would like to run linux instead android, -WOLF- from 4pda.ru have done this with his samsung galaxy spica and I would like to do the same for our OB.Here is origina thread on 4pda.ru but it is all in russan.I tried to make a kernel with frambuffer console and sdcard as root directory but it failed.So anyone who can cook kernels please help.Then, when kernel is done we will try to run linux(ubuntu, andstrom, etc.).
Thank u!
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Android is based on Linux, so what do you expect by running Linux on OB?
I don't have time to do that, so I'll just wait and see your progress then...
What will you choose? Computer with linux dis. or with android?I think with linux.
BeBeLKhaN said:
cant we run win 95 ?
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)) you made my day )) EPIC answer )
WTF
suleymanovemil8 said:
What will you choose? Computer with linux dis. or with android?I think with linux.
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I do using my computer with Ubuntu Linux OS, not Android.
Your quest above are,
suleymanovemil8 said:
... I would like to do the same for our OB.
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So, you are talking about OS on computer, or mobile device?!
redy2006, please help with kernel, i'm gonna get craizy with this kernel...
In the past I had a chinese android device which had 3 options of booting: Android, Linux(I think ubuntu) and Windows CE.
It's really very nice to run linux because it looks like a real pc
ohadz said:
In the past I had a chinese android device which had 3 options of booting: Android, Linux(I think ubuntu) and Windows CE.
It's really very nice to run linux because it looks like a real pc
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Whe off ics will release i will take it's new kernel 3.xx, but i neeeed help with kernel.
redy2006 said:
I do using my computer with Ubuntu Linux OS, not Android.
Your quest above are,
So, you are talking about OS on computer, or mobile device?!
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mobile device, well i think this will make our device more poerfulll, we could use the programs wich are not ported on any android device, and do many more!
This belongs in general.
BeBeLKhaN said:
cant we run win 95 ?
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Yes, we can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWkqMmtSJRE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Yes, we can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWkqMmtSJRE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I was launched with apk i foger it two weeks ago windows 95.It booted 30 sec.mouse control was very hard and i couldnt access sd files.Than I delete win95 image and application.
Win 95 can run alongside android but if u want to make it your native os u must work alot to port it.And in this thread i don't mean runing any os with android i mean runnning linux dis. instead of android.
Any question about "4pda.ru" here: http://onlinecontent.ru/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2&sid=09bc3461206b22af1e5f924e0fc2900c
Hi want backtrack on your mb860
http://stuffresearch.tor.hu/?p=245 this guide will work. And uses the official arm img. You will end up with a chroot ubuntu. Which basically means they "share" root.
If you need help ill help. After you got it all working i recommend running an ssh server on android so you can ssh into your android from ubuntu.
leathan said:
Hi want backtrack on your mb860
http://stuffresearch.tor.hu/?p=245
If you need help ill help. After you got it all working i recommend running an ssh server on android so you can ssh into your android from ubuntu.
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(obviously you dont need internet to run the ssh server)
The guide might be hard. But i can break it down to even a 5 year old. So post if u think its too hard. Running backtrack n my tiny phone and booting up etherape and watching my android connections is just plain fun! And i want you guys to get it too!
You do not need linux to do this... but for obvious reasons use linux.
I wrote all my scripts but they are just optimized and expanded from whats in the link.
This will be used to detail how to get LinuxonAndroid running on the GPad and the process of QPair support to bring new and interesting features to the project as a whole.
Step 1 - Install Linux on the tablet
We shall start by using the standard Complete Linux Installer to install and run Linux with the GUI pumped over VNC (Frame buffer method coming soon!), this method works on most devices and is the most universal but as the project develops in the coming weeks a better method for the GPad will be developed.
Anyway on with installing!
Root
First things first you will need to root your tablet, currently my tablet is running Stock V50020d with root.
The below will most likely work on other ROMs as long as you have root it should work!
(A custom ROM may be developed for further features.. watch this space)
Download
Now we have root you will need to download the below:
Complete Linux Installer
Terminal Emulator
VNC View (I recommend PocketCloud)
Finally download A Linux .img file from our source forge site HERE, I recommend and will be using Ubuntu 13.10 Small ext4. Once downloaded extract the .zip file and copy the .img to your devices memory (internal memory or sdcard).
XDA:DevDB Information
LinuxonAndroid - GPad, Device Specific App for the LG G Pad 8.3
Contributors
zacthespack
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2014-11-01
Last Updated 2014-11-12
Let me understand, you want to port QPair to linux that will run on the G pad?
Disclaimer: I'm also in the challange but the idea of running linux on the tablet is really interesting.
yoavst said:
Let me understand, you want to port QPair to linux that will run on the G pad?
Disclaimer: I'm also in the challange but the idea of running linux on the tablet is really interesting.
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I guess @zacthespack wants to use linuxonandroid on tab and sync stuff with a third party such as keyboard, etc using QPair.
Another Disclaimer here Good luck to everyone!
SferaDev said:
I guess @zacthespack wants to use linuxonandroid on tab and sync stuff with a third party such as keyboard, etc using QPair.
Another Disclaimer here Good luck to everyone!
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Bingo!
With linuxonandroid running on the tablet we could then use QPair to allow the user to have a phone (or another tablet..?) as the mouse/keyboard for Linux
posted first steps in OP to start getting LoA running on the tablet.
Everything is running very well, I shall finish the guide shortly to get LoA running but really the app install guide will work perfectly.
Next step I will be releasing a special Ubuntu 14.10 image which will be the supported image for QPair features and other changes for the GPad.
it say I need a loopable kernel which I didn't find for stock LG rom...
yoavst said:
it say I need a loopable kernel which I didn't find for stock LG rom...
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Stock LG kernel does have loop support so you should have no issue here, if you are having another issue getting linux to start let me know, shall be updated the OP in the next few days
As you know voting is now live so please do vote for the project!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/dev...-voting/xda-lg-contest-voting-thread-t2978598
Howdy, cool project. Couple of questions. I'm looking for a reason to install Linux on my tablet, but also understand that I can remotely view my home system with vnc. So what would be the benefit?
Is there more control using Linux to Linux?
Does this mean I could open into my home system, make changes to my kernel, compile, and upload to a server from my tablet?? Late night insomnia while in the mountains would be awesome. I would have to tether my tablet to my phone for WiFi, and run through Linux? This sounds pretty awesome.
Tell me the reasons it won't work.
Pretty awesome OP. Thanks!
Cant log in ubuntu
Can somebody tell me why im not able to boot?im running lollipop with red kernel and before i was running kitkat and still the same.Im my g2 there is no problem but on tab doesn work.I download complete linux installer,busybox,terminal and vnc and i never get the @root.i trh also a differend image but nothing.Any help will be appreciate