Termux is known as afree and open source terminal emulatorforAndroidwhich allows for running aLinux environment on anAndroiddevice. To add more , many software can be installed through the Termuxpackage manager.
Termux is free linux terminal and the first Android terminal application to include a variety of software unlike the iphone that is restricted for many functions.
Unlike other terminal emulators, which only has small or limited utilities provided by Android are available on termux. When you install Termux , termux install a minimal base system automatically for you , and additional packages are available using a package manager . Most commands available in Linux are accessible as well as built-in Bash commands. Android have several other shells available, such as Zsh and tcsh but in this article we will only concentrate on termix.
Below is a Picture of termux interface
Now Let Us install termux on our Android phone
You can get Termux inplaystore but it is some how no longer maintained so we will be downloading fromtermux.comand after downloading we need to downloadFdroid.click on the following link to download
Steps involved in downloading and setting up termux
1. If your Android Version is high up to 7 or more, your battery is charged and you have network access and available data as well
2.DownloadTermux
3.Download F-Droid
4. Open the F-Droid that you have previously downloaded in above them search fortermux Api, remember during the installation you must allow f-droid to install app because your phone will flag it as unknown source.
Go to settings then click on installed app then click F-Droid then allow F-Droid to install unknown apps
Run the code below
Now we have to open termux and run this command
pkg update && pkg upgrade
After that run this command.
termux-setup-storageThis is to allow you to access your storage on termux .
If you are here because you Installed nethunter or kali linux and your termux keeps crashing and you want to fix termux error process completed signal 9 then follow this post
How to fix termux error >>how-to-fix-termux-error-process-completed-signal-9
Congrats you have succeafully installed termux on your Android phone; There are many things to use termus for.
In the next post we would configuring termux to create django website for universal use
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