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Installing ALPINE LINUX on PHONEs

You must take into consideration that there is really no standar way to replace the phone’s operating system, what is really done is to use the base of the operating system and use a parallel operating system (this in principle to explain it more simply).

What happened then? you can boot inside yor phone (whitout remove the phone’s OS), the Alpine operating system, just like a kind of virtual machine but its not!

If you want more help directly ask for help here.

Introduction

TERMUX or ISH are applications providing linux like environment.

Using Alpine-linux is beneficial for programmers,computer science students,

Requirements

IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT Let’s remember that you must have a minimum understanding of Linux terminology, and this does not mean that you know it by using Mint or Ubuntu or WSL2.
Download a terminal subsystem, in the following table we will provide the respectives in each phone cases and feature requirements:

OS	Version	Software to download	Minimal storage to use	Quick link to download
iOS	12.0+	Download iSH Shell	100Mb (its custom repo)	https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243
Androit	7.0+	Download Termux	240Mb (depends of version)	https://f-droid.org/repo/com.termux_118.apk

Issues when find apps for the phones

Its best to “Copy-paste” all commands in Termux or iSH to avoid errors.
Its pretty important to check the Limitations and issues section before assume anything.
On iOS maybe you must search over App store for the keyword “iSH” if the links provided does not work.
On Androit maybe you must enable the Allow App Installations from Unknown Sources

Instalation

On iOS and iSH

The iSH uses the Alpine already embebed, so you may have to run apk update to fetch the Alpine repository list.

The iSH has its own repositories so the app is entirely self-contained and iSH with apk can pass app review. The repositories are a pseudo apk filesystem mounted on /ish/apk that when read, will actually download from App Store as on-demand resources. It also means that Apple can review all packages in iSH’s repositories.

open iSH app
After open it, alpine its already started and runing in a terminal mode
As optional get sure to get internet network by run echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf

On Androit and Termux

To install Alpine-Linux:

open Termux app
run following command:

pkg install git

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hax4us/TermuxAlpine/master/TermuxAlpine.sh && bash TermuxAlpine.sh

startalpine

To logout/exit Alpine-Linux, just run exit until ends
To start Alpine-Linux again open Termux and run startalpine
As optional get sure to get internet network by run echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf

Limitations and issues

Sometimes you will receive an error error relocating ... symbol not found when running any installed tool. This is because you installed some alpine packages too fresh but not upgraded dependences. A simple apk upgrade -a will fix it.

Warning IMPORTANT to know:

For Androit and Termux you must read: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Differences_from_Linux

For iOS and iSH you must read: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/What-works%3F

Refrence Sources

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