I was curious if any of the dev gurus had a nice Linux setup that they could make a Android Development distro from?
I keep running into repo issues when trying to set up my system. This led me to go.....'why isn't there a precompiled dev distro??'
If there is....please point me towards it, as I have been searching, but if it exist it's in a deep dark part of the internet I'm yet to discover.
Thanks
(ps. I wanted to make a clockwork recovery for an unsupported device.)
I keep running into repo issues when trying to set up my system.
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I think the best Idea is to set up an Ubuntu based system at the moment.
With fedora based distros (fuduntu) I allways get some issues as well.
Some month ago I ran into a site that provided some Ubuntu based virtual box images with the Android SDK installed, but as it changes alot lately I don't think it's up to date, and I can't find it anymore anyway.
Maybe the guides aren't accurate anymore??
The distro I tried was the newest Ubuntu, but with everything I attempted to install I would get permission issues and sometimes the links to repo's weren't live any longer..
Perhaps what I should ask is 'Where can I find an accurate, reliable guide to setting up my linux distro for dev use?'
eh, I'm not completely dumb to Linux, but I require a bit of assistance :/
Ya, Ubuntu is kinda mandatory considering the way the kernel in AoS forked from it. Ubuntu is a common one, should be able to do what you need off the USB bootable even.
Really depends on your hardware setup. I've been playing around with a portable Puppy lately - something I can use at work and on my ancient semi-sandbox laptop. If you like I can put a vanilla package together for you.
There is a distro from 2010 made by a beginning builder specifically for linux/android developers. I haven't used it but it may be worth a go: http://www.simply-android.com/discu...oid-developers-have-their-own-linux-distro/p1
I have searched a number of ways for a definitive set of steps to install Linux applications, fix apt-get dependencies, and create icons for those newly installed applications in Webtop on my Atrix 4G. I have installed Debian Linux and Xterm on my Webtop, and have successfully used the VI commands to unhook the new 4.0.1 version of Firefox, but my success ends here.
What I have found in my searching is piecemeal, version specific, or so highly specialized that a Linux noob like me has no chance of pulling together a successful install. I would like to install Gimp, OpenOffice, and maybe even a desktop application (like Gnome), and am having an appreciable amount of difficulty closing the circle.
I would be happy to buy a cup of coffee for someone who can put together a sequential list of steps (preferably with the actual Linux commands) that can be adapted to accomplish this. Thank you!
Sent from my Atrix 4G running Homebase 5.2 with Fauxs enhanced stock Kernel
I'm definately no Linux Guru, but This is what I did to install openoffice on my webtop. (assuming you followed the steps to fix the repo listed in the Webtop2SD post)
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
and that was it....now running it nearly every day with no problems, good luck.
I installed Synaptic. It's a package manager. Just select the package you want to install and it does it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279724&highlight=synaptic
If the Synaptic install errors, it should suggest what to run to fix it.
use backports
Use pdmenu (the penguin) to open a shell, bash will do nicely and type "apt-get install synaptic" as suggested by robrj. Then do a search for backports and libreoffice. That should help you get started. Remember, this is just Debian squeeze and the Debian support groups have the answers you need until you jump back into android or webtop mods.
This isn't bypassing the bootloader, thus I didn't want to step on the toes of the Devs on the other thread...but I came across this article!
Yes, I know the performance will never be as good as directly accessing the hardware, but the NT is a lot beefier than the NC, so it might not be as bad. It wouldn't be easy build the image, either, but if it's possible, what's learned doing this might be useful for the day, hopefully, that the boot loader is unlocked/bypassed.
I'm also thinking that it would be easier to port a modified android ROM vs another operating system like Ubuntu or Debian. Thoughts?
Nevermind.
I got a chroot of gentoo running just fine. I'm sure ubuntu or debian or whatever would be just as easy.
That's great that Linux is working...I was thinking more about running a CM7 or CM9 alpha modified iso inside of stock using chroot!
The thought being that CM7 (or similar Nook Roms) should be easier to setup than Ubuntu or Fedora, and that we wouldn't need to worry about the boot loader. Again, it's not as ideal as bypassing the boot loader, but it would be nice to have CM7 or CM9 while that's being worked on.
I'd like to make a few customizations to CM10. I followed this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_eclipse using ADT with Eclipse. However, Eclipse shows 1965 errors in the CM10 source, like camera_app_root cannot be resolved or is not a field, R cannot be resolved to a variable, etc... but I can build and run my own Android app fine with it, and I can even build CM10 for my phone from this source. My OS is Ubuntu 12.04 x64 (not in virtual machine).
Been trying to get this working since a day, with zero luck so far. If anyone knows how to do this, please help me out I could edit the sources with a text editor, but that would be way easier with an IDE...
Hi developers,
is any chance, that can i install any alternative OS to my Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311? Device has a Nvidia Tegra K1 CPU, that is ARM. Chrome OS is not too bad, but i need some apps, which not exist or not work well.
I finding any OS. It may be Android or Ubuntu. But i need working offline apps (storage is not big problem i mean).
*Sorry for my bad english
just an idea
lord.wiccar said:
Hi developers,
is any chance, that can i install any alternative OS to my Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311? Device has a Nvidia Tegra K1 CPU, that is ARM. Chrome OS is not too bad, but i need some apps, which not exist or not work well.
I finding any OS. It may be Android or Ubuntu. But i need working offline apps (storage is not big problem i mean).
yea im searching for the samething ... maybe somebody can fix the OS from the shield devices on to it
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I have the same model. Great hardware, lousy os. Crouton with ubuntu trusty build runs well if you are a little computer savvy and dont mind typing in terminal commands. It runs parallel to chrome. I have heard you can install linux native on this model, but have never tried.
Hello, If you find a way how to install android apps on Acer CB5-311 chromebook, will be great. Thank you!
Yeah, it is possible.
lord.wiccar said:
Hi developers,
is any chance, that can i install any alternative OS to my Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311? Device has a Nvidia Tegra K1 CPU, that is ARM. Chrome OS is not too bad, but i need some apps, which not exist or not work well.
I finding any OS. It may be Android or Ubuntu. But i need working offline apps (storage is not big problem i mean).
*Sorry for my bad english
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I know you porobably solve your problem, or change your device, but i want to reply to it, if anyone else are searching for answers.
Because of drop of support for this device a have decided to move to linux.
On internet are some scrips, which can do it by one or two clicks, but they are old today and it's i bit more tricky today.
In general, you can use arch linux, which instalation still work, but graphical session doesn't start (i don't know why, i'm not expert on arch). You can use Clifford script, which don't work for today, because chrome os karnel has been changed and it is more difficult to use it.
So i install arch linux, with working kernel a delete it's rootfs. Into it i installed ubuntu-base 18.04, update, instal basic packages and kubuntu desktop.
Suprisingly it work very well, even graphic acceleration works.
If anyone wan't to know, how did i do it, i can help.
But i think no one is using it today, except few people like me.
Hy! need help cb5-311
Jirka13 said:
I know you porobably solve your problem, or change your device, but i want to reply to it, if anyone else are searching for answers.
Because of drop of support for this device a have decided to move to linux.
On internet are some scrips, which can do it by one or two clicks, but they are old today and it's i bit more tricky today.
In general, you can use arch linux, which instalation still work, but graphical session doesn't start (i don't know why, i'm not expert on arch). You can use Clifford script, which don't work for today, because chrome os karnel has been changed and it is more difficult to use it.
So i install arch linux, with working kernel a delete it's rootfs. Into it i installed ubuntu-base 18.04, update, instal basic packages and kubuntu desktop.
Suprisingly it work very well, even graphic acceleration works.
If anyone wan't to know, how did i do it, i can help.
But i think no one is using it today, except few people like me.
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I need help to change chrome OS with linux on my old acer cb5-311. [email protected] Thank you!
In case no one has known yet, the CB5-311 is running an Nvidia Tegra K1 processer if I'm not mistaken. Therefore, because it is an ARM-based device, using another OS other than ChromeOS is impossible as far as I can tell.
Good to know about the Tegra k1 processor...
Hey, sorry for waiting.
Here is some linux images for this device: https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder
It is prepared to flash on SD and boot from it. From this awesome develeper can be also found the linux kernel for this chromebook.
It is also posible to did something similar like chrubuntu did earlier, it means flash kernel to KERNEL C partition and boot from internal storage (but my 16 GB internal storage is i bit small)
Good luck, with this.
P. S . only problem is with graphic drivers. Drivers provided from NVIDIA is for ubuntu 14 and they are too old to use. So you you have to regret hardware acceleration (or find another way how to make it work).
Read also the the issues and releases on github.
Second way is to use archlinux. There is and script, which will do anything for you.
https://github.com/RaumZeit/LinuxOnAcerCB5-311 even if this script isn´t for my CB5-311-T23S, it works.
If you don´t know how to resize internal storage and flash working kernel, it is posible to use this script and install arch linux and later back up kernel modules, format partition with root and there install ubuntu base. ArchKernel work fine with it, but latest working version is ubuntu 18. (Snap don´t work on this old kernel). If you want ubuntu 20 (or newer), you will have to use kernel from hexdump0815 mentioned earlier)