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      fuchsuin last edited by fuchsuin

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        TartanSpartan @joe last edited by TartanSpartan

        @joe I agree. I would like to draw everyone's attention to this issue, and as I say, we need a way to start from fresh with Anbox without having to reinstall Ubuntu Touch. This is especially important for when Anbox is entirely stable and becomes a part of the system image for a future UT OTA.

        https://github.com/ubports/anbox/issues/24

        Sister issue regarding the importance of being warned or even blocked from installing problematic apps, as desktop snap-based Anbox implementations already do:

        https://github.com/ubports/anbox/issues/25

        I'm also wondering if Anbox can be destabilised if users try to install APKs beyond a certain storage level? Like, if we install several apps which are each ~100MB, and this is from a starting point of say 1.5GB free storage space left, is there a point at which things start to break? And I mean before running to to 0MB left.

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          te-online @gb last edited by

          @gb I had to enlarge the system partition on my Nexus 5 to install everything, if I remember correctly. Maybe that's your issue? I think I followed this script https://github.com/plasma-mobile/plasma-phone-dev-setup/blob/master/usr/bin/resize-root-partition with minor adjustments, but caution I don't remember since it's been a while – do it on your own risk 😉

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            pawlinski @padraic last edited by

            @padraic said in Development testers for Anbox:

            anyone successfully get frieza working? I tried but am told that

            phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
            Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!
            

            Pretty sure I went through the procedures correctly but maybe I missed something. If I don't hear back from anyone I'll try again in a couple of days and open an issue if it still doesn't work.

            I have the same problem

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              pawlinski @gb last edited by

              @gb

              @gb said in Development testers for Anbox:

              Hi,

              I´m testing it in M10 FHD (frieza).
              I just installed ubports from scratch (16.04 dev) and try the instructions post by Marius.

              Doing "sudo apt-get upgrade", I´m facing:
              "E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/."

              How can this be possible? I just installed the system and there is no space left?
              Do I have to install the hole thing into a Libertine container?

              You can try (it has helped me):

              sudo mount -o rw,remount /

              sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

              sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0

              sudo apt update

              sudo apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch

              sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

              sudo mount -o r,remount /

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                honigwald last edited by honigwald

                @pawlinski I'm having the same issue. Installation was successful after cleaning the cache several times. but when I try to install anbox-tools I get the same error as @padraic .

                phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                Kernel: NOT OK
                System: NOT FOUND
                Enabled: NO
                Running: NO

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                  gmelchett @honigwald last edited by

                  @honigwald What does sudo anbox-tool status say? On my Nexus 5, sudo vs no sudo shows different status.

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                    honigwald @gmelchett last edited by honigwald

                    @gmelchett Hi. This is the Output I get.
                    0_1540939338796_Screen Shot 2018-10-30 at 23.41.55.png

                    Until now, I've resized /dev/loop0 to 3GB and reinstalled everything without success.

                    Btw.: I'm using BQ M10 FHD

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                      ursfan @pawlinski last edited by

                      @pawlinski Have you installed the boot.img for frieza with fastboot?

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                        Ingo last edited by

                        Just tried anbox for the first time on my Fairphone 2. Installed a few apps (pulling APKs from my android device using this description).

                        As expected, my bike sharing app doesn't work as it uses google services.
                        But spotify works 😉

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                          pawlinski @ursfan last edited by

                          @ursfan Yes.

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                            Yougo last edited by

                            Hi, has anyone tried to install anbox on a bq M10 HD yet?

                            i have , but anbox-tool is telling me i need to flash the kernel, but i did that?!

                            i followed instructions from here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

                            might there be some step missing? or is the anbox-boot-cooler.img not functional?

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                              arubislander @Yougo last edited by

                              @yougo: Just stating the obvious, but it is a mistake that I made initially when trying anbox on my M10FHD: Did you use the correct name for the boot partition when flashing the boot image (boot instead of bootimg)?

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                                marc_aurel last edited by

                                Exciting progress. I sucessfully installed Anbox on my FP2. For installing additional apks; I tried to install adb android-tools-adb:

                                phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo apt install android-tools-adb
                                Reading package lists... Done
                                Building dependency tree       
                                Reading state information... Done
                                The following NEW packages will be installed:
                                    android-tools-adb
                                0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 108 not upgraded.
                                Need to get 64.1 kB of archives.
                                After this operation, 152 kB of additional disk space will be used.
                                E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
                                

                                This is confusing, because the system info says, that there is more than 23 GB free space on my FP2.

                                Some idea to resolve this issue?

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                                  Ingo last edited by

                                  Using pawlinskis approach from https://forums.ubports.com/post/14023

                                  sudo mount -o rw,remount /
                                  sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt
                                  sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0
                                  sudo apt update
                                  sudo apt install android-tools-adb
                                  sudo mount -o ro,remount /

                                  The system image has just 2 GB and the commands above free some of that space. The 23 GB free storage you mentioned is the part of the storage reserved for user data.

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                                    haveaniceday last edited by haveaniceday

                                    @honigwald I have the same problem. BQ Aquaris FHD (frieza).
                                    Flashed the the kernel as shown at docs.ubports.com, but anbox-tool status says:

                                    phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                                    Kernel: NOT OK
                                    System: NOT FOUND
                                    Enabled: NO
                                    Running: NO
                                    

                                    Prior to installing I grew the ubuntu.img / system.img to have enough space for apt on /.
                                    Somehow the kernel does not get installed... Anyone has solved this?

                                    Maybe this is relevant: I bought the Android version of the tablet - then installed UBports UT. Maybe this changes the boot partition / image?

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                                      haveaniceday @arubislander last edited by

                                      @arubislander So did I. Maybe boot is incorrect?

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                                        haveaniceday last edited by

                                        I just used ubports-installer to flash 16.04/rc onto the frieza, then resized the partition, then installed anbox using the doc.ubports.com tutorial. No success 😞
                                        @mariogrip How did you do it?

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                                          Johanno last edited by

                                          Hi,
                                          I've tried it on BQ m10 FHD and it does not seem to work.
                                          I've flashed the Kernel and installed anbox-tool but i can't install it, because it says the Kernel isn't installed.

                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
                                          Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!
                                          
                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                                          Kernel: NOT OK
                                          System: NOT FOUND
                                          Enabled: NO
                                          Running: NO
                                          

                                          I tried reflashing it a couple of times, without success.

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                                            delijati last edited by

                                            Can someone point me to the used kernel source for bacon anbox. The one in github seams not to have the "anbox" changes.

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