Use for questions about Termux, an Android terminal emulator and Linux simulation app or issues with using packages on it.
Questions tagged [termux]
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Start any application through termux command line for example chrome, youtube and some other application like cryptotabbrowser
How to open any application available in phone or installed through termux command line?
I can run only chrome with this command but how to open other applications?
am start --user 0 -n com.android.chrome/com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main

Laljee Tandan
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How to fix the error "E: Unable to locate package wireless-tools" in termux
The answer is:
We get this error when we try to install the wireless tools in termux using the below command
pkg install wireless-tools
This is because the termux-root-packages repository are not subscribed. To subscribe to the root repository,…

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how to run Deno on termux?
Is there any way to run deno on termux . I had searched on internet but no help or there is no possibility till now to run on phone

Rishu Pandey
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How to record microphone to mp3 in Termux on Android?
I'm interested to try out Termux command line on Android to record microphone audio to mp3. I've tried running different commands but without much effect. Can anyone pinpoint correct example command to start recording of the microphone, to mp3, at a…

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Termux says "'Bad Interpreter: No such file or directory"
I have a problem and hope someone can help me. I am currently trying to write a script for Termux or Termux:Task. My script currently looks like this:
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
cd /./sdcard/www/public/
wp post list sleep 5
Every…

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How to change the default startup folder in Termux?
Currently I've been using the Termux terminal on Android Samsung phone. So basicly every time i want to go to my Dropbox folder via terminal i need to cd into the "home/storage/shared/Android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/ u1407419/scratch/org "…
user10798561
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Could not install pyzmq using apt,pip,pip3,easy_install etc any command
I tried everything but pyzmq package is not installing.
It stops while trying wheel. I even reinstalled wheel but no result.
I have already installed all basic prereq stuff. I even installed clang and go-lang but nothing works it even shows same…

farman chauhan
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The pip install is broken on Arch Linux under Termux
With Python 3.6.4:
In a fresh Termux (terminal emulator for Android) installation, I do according to PRoot:
pkg install wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdrausty/TermuxArch/master/setupTermuxArch.sh
bash setupTermuxArch.sh
After that in…

Boris Brodski
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Why i can't install something on termux android?
Its still get error, error and error again, i trying to install it again but still error
The error:
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/apt/methods/https": library "libssl.so.1.1" not found: needed by…

Azizkhasyi11
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ERROR: Could not build wheels for coincurve, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
Error while installing bit using Termux on a Samsung Galaxy s10 Android 12 which is not rooted
~ $ pip3 install bit Collecting bit
Using cached bit-0.8.0-py3-none-any.whl (68 kB)
Collecting requests …

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Start ACODE or any other text editor from Termux
I have a file in my directory named file.sh
What I want is to directly open this file with any GUI based Text Editor of android from a Termux command/script. I prefer ACODE because of it's simplicity. Any other editor would do the job.
I know that…

Xowmik Xoss
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tar:invalid magic, tar:short read
I enter this command
su -c busybox tar -xvf /storage/emulated/0/Download/andrax.r5-build5.tar.xz -C /data/data/com.thecrackertechnology.andrax/ANDRAX/
and such an error appears
tar:invalid magic
tar:short read

Yaroslav Morozovskiy
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Buildozer fails to compile libffi on arm64/aarch64 CPU
I am Trying to run Buildozer on my Android Phone.
For this i am using Arch Linux pRoot on Termux App (Android 7)(redmi Note 4)
Since Google Only distributes x86_64 version of NDK, i am using aarch64/arm64 Android NDK (version r21d) and SDK from this…

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pip install matplotlib does not work under termux (Android)
I installed termux on my Android tablet, and was able to successfully install Python 3.9 and Numpy, but not matplotlib. Apparently the .whl was downloaded and cached, and now when I try to install, whether using pip or pkg it attempts to use the…

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Need to run Python 3.8.x on Termux on Android, currently installed with Python 3.9
I have just installed the latest Termux on my Android device and Python 3.9 is the default Python installation. I need to run Python 3.8.x due to some package incompatibilities.
My searching tells me there is no way to downgrade Python within Termux…

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