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Termux

Termux is a terminal emulator which provides a linux-like environment of for your Android Device! Termux Main Page

Termux combines powerful terminal emulation with an extensive Linux package collection.

Features

  • Enjoy the bash and zsh shells.
  • Edit files with nano and vim.
  • Access servers over ssh.
  • Develop in C with clang, make and gdb.
  • Use the python console as a pocket calculator.
  • Check out projects with git and subversion.
  • Run text-based games with frotz.
  • Run linux images with proot

Packages

Termux comes with it's own package manager called pkg (can also be referenced with normal apt). So to install some package you do 

$ pkg install package-name
and it will automatically run apt update before installing and then installs the package from it's vast repository which includes Python, Nodejs, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.

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Need help? Check out #termux channel on our Discord Server!

Last update: 2021-06-12