after checking the proot-distro package in termux , i thought that maybe there is a chance to run ubuntu touch on an android device using proot and without unlocking the bootloader using termux . but i am not sure if it is possible , because in the adding a distribution page to add a distribution you must have a tarball for the distribution and the file should look like this

DISTRO_NAME="Debian"
TARBALL_URL['aarch64']="https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/releases/download/v1.10.1/debian-aarch64-pd-v1.10.1.tar.xz"
TARBALL_SHA256['aarch64']="f34802fbb300b4d088a638c638683fd2bfc1c03f4b40fa4cb7d2113231401a21"

so can i get a generic system image tarball for installation ? if yes can anyone please help me find it ? any help will be appreciated .

Thanks to everyone for the advice . after thinking a lot i bought a redmi 9c because i didn't have any other options and because it is extremely cheap - like it was just 160 dollars - and i will also buy another phone with a better camera later . even though the redmi 9c has a not really good camera it has a good battery and the storage is good so maybe it is the best option for me . i will have to wait before i install ubuntu touch because the port is not very good and i am busy those 2 weeks - i am always busy - and i might even try to improve the port when i can . so i will see if it was a good option or not , and i hope it is not a bad option .
thanks again for everything !

@opolork said in advice on which device to buy:

@herobrine7gamer It depends on your usage - mine is very little. But fair enough.

well my usage is also little , i would use my phone to call and receive emails and read rss feeds and watching videos , but the most important thing is the camera , i can't use a phone with a bad camera at all , so i would really like a device with a great camera , but i heard that ubuntu touch has problems with camera and taking photos and videos .

@lakotaubp

@lakotaubp said in advice on which device to buy:

@herobrine7gamer eBay but I'm in the UK

really ? shouldn't ebay be global ? like if i want to buy something , shouldn't i be able to buy it from any country ?

@keneda i prefer not to say , but where i live we don't really have much linux and privacy enthusiasts , and for phones there are almost no oneplus or google pixel devices in any store .

@opolork the fairphone 2 is a very nice device but it is just old and the battery is not good enough for daily usage .

@mrt10001 oneplus phones are easy to unlock and root but i don't find them locally . i really prefer buying a device from a store because i have a very bad experience with byuing phones online .

@lakotaubp i searched a lot everywhere but couldn't find any pixel3/3a , i searched on aliexpress and ebay and aliexpress but without any result . no luck with googling for an hour . i wish i can find it because the port status is almost perfect . what is the website that you found the device on ?

i need help . i want to buy a redmi 9c , so is there anything i should consider before buying this device ? the development status of the port for the redmi 9a/9c is in the ubuntu touch devices list is still the same even after 2 months so is the port discontinued or not active anymore or unmaintained ? i really want this device as it is extremely cheap and i can afford it easily . i might get a pinephone but it's not available right now and the redmi 9c has very good specs and the performance is much better so i'm not sure . the pixel 3a is very good but i can't find it anywhere . i can't decide which device to choose . any advice ? (note that my budget is a bit small) .

on 16 march 2022, canonical uploaded this blog and stated that the logo (the circle of friends) would change.

will ubports change their logo too?
and in lomiri the ubuntu logo should be changed too.
and yumi also has the logo on it's body, so will it change?

Yesterday when i saw the redmi 9a and the redmi 9c i thought why not buy a one to try porting ubuntu touch to it , but when i searched online i only found an unofficial build of lineage os for the redmi 9a/9c/activ and the kernel source .
Are these 2 enough to port ubuntu touch to one of them ?

• the freedom that humanity deserves .

• the community touch .

• it is because we are .

• the touch towards humanity .

1 - freedom in the form of a touch

2 - free yourself with a touch

@lduboeuf no it's been so long since i updated clickable, i will try that .

today i tried to build morph-browser from the source code
on github.
i tried to build it with clickable, using:

$ clickable build

but i got an error:

Sending build context to Docker daemon  3.584kB
Step 1/8 : FROM clickable/amd64-16.04-armhf:16.04.5
 ---> 6236c98e71a1
Step 2/8 : RUN echo set debconf/frontend Noninteractive | debconf-communicate && echo set debconf/priority critical | debconf-communicate
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 4d0a3b15df03
Step 3/8 : RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --force-yes --no-install-recommends pkg-config libssl-dev:armhf && apt-get clean
 ---> Running in 349071ef4581
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Err:8 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x xenial/main Sources
  server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none
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Fetched 38.5 MB in 10s (3628 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
W: The repository 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
E: Failed to fetch https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x/dists/xenial/main/source/Sources  server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
The command '/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install -y --force-yes --no-install-recommends pkg-config libssl-dev:armhf && apt-get clean' returned a non-zero code: 100
Command exited with non-zero exit status 100, see above for details. This is most likely not a problem with Clickable.

first i thought that it was a problem with

/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificate.crt

but i updated it recently, so i thought about running

$ curl -vvI https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x/dists/xenial/main/source/Sources

and got this:

*   Trying 2a02:26f0:2500::217:9e49...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to deb.nodesource.com (2a02:26f0:2500::217:9e49) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=nodesource.com
*  start date: Sep 30 20:04:56 2021 GMT
*  expire date: Dec 29 20:04:55 2021 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "deb.nodesource.com" matched cert's "deb.nodesource.com"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x55f28da62540)
> HEAD /node_12.x/dists/xenial/main/source/Sources HTTP/2
> Host: deb.nodesource.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
> Accept: */*
> 
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS updated)!
< HTTP/2 404 
HTTP/2 404 
< content-type: text/html
content-type: text/html
< content-length: 162
content-length: 162
< server: nginx
server: nginx
< date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:36:30 GMT
date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:36:30 GMT

< 
* Connection #0 to host deb.nodesource.com left intact

so what is the problem?
this is the first time i run into this error.