![]() ![]() The app will validate the configuration and start all the services of the Linux distribution. Now tap on the Start button on the bottom left. Depending on your internet speed, if everything went well, you should see a screen as shown below. ![]() Tap on the three dots on the top right and select Install, the app will be downloading the entire linux image based on our configuration. This is all the configuration that we need for now. If you need GUI then you can setup a VNC viewer and configure it easily. GUI - Since most of the time we will be accessing it through SSH I have skipped the GUI part.Audio - We don’t need it for our usecase.SSH - Enable this, we want to access this system inside our home network with ssh.Mount points - Use it to mount your internal or external sdcard to use in Ubuntu, more on this later.Privileged Users - Additional custom permissions for the user.Username & Password - Use anything, we will use it to login with ssh.Image Size - Consider this as the partition size for your Linux installation.The app greets you with a screen like in the screenshot below, please not that I am currently using version 2.6.0 it might differ if you use another app version. You will need root access enabled on your device to get it working. Linux Deploy is an app that makes this process easy, go ahead and install the app from Google Play Store. Xiaomi Redmi 1s, running Lineage OS 14.1(Android 7.1.2) Qualcomm MSM8228 Snapdragon 400 ARM processor.Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro, running Lineage OS 17.1(Android 10), Qualcomm SDM636 Snapdragon 636 arm64 processor.I have tested this approach on the following configurations A phone running Android 7+ with root access.First, make sure you have the following items checked: If you are willing to take the risk you can still follow. Though its completely fine to do, I don’t recommend using your primary phone to follow this post as it would end your phone’s warranty. Most of the people I know have at least one abandoned Android phone. I’ll talk about the media server setup some other day but lets see how to install Ubuntu on Android. Its a long process to setup the media server and the first step in getting their is to install Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution on the Android phone. So I set course and took out my old Android phone, did some hacking and got the media server working on it. I was thinking about setting up a media server in my home network so I can watch movies and TV shows on all devices, I was convinced to use a Raspberry Pie for this but then I thought what if I use my Android phone for the same, its much more capable than a pie and has a lot hardware capabilities that the pie doesn’t offer out of the box. Its easy to find an Android phone under $200 that is capable of powering up a desktop computer with decent performance. Phones have become very powerful these days. ![]()
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