armeabi-v7a re-support

[8itlew7r]

I can't install Linux under PRoot, can you please support armeabi-v7a again? Otherwise I won't be able to use your application, which I mainly use to learn programming. If not, thank you for your incredible work!

[green-green-avk]

At which point armeabi-v7a stopped working and how?
Some symptoms appreciated.

[8itlew7r]

Another Term
green_green_avk.anotherterm.redist
Version MkIIIv80 (139)

OS version: 10, Brand: Redmi, Model: M2006C3LG
Board: dandelion, Manufacturer: Xiaomi, VM: ART

CPU
Hardware: MT6762G
Supported architectures: armeabi-v7a, armeabi
Cores: 8

I'm sorry, I'm trying to follow your instructions, but all the distributions only support amd64, arm64.

[green-green-avk]

What happened

About mentioned instructions: I only provided a link to a third-party root-fs builds for their own container system as it was seemingly the best way to do the job at that distant time.
Alas, they have stopped support any 32-bit archs.

What to do

See https://green-green-avk.github.io/AnotherTerm-docs/installing-linux-under-proot.html#other-prebuilt-linux-rootfses-list

Note 1: Where is an automatic install script that you probably want? Nah... Not such quick. I'll try to provide some soon. Use the Force till this moment and praise the Omnissiah.

Note 2: And remember: Android prohibits hard links creation by its apps, minitar (the part of the Android10Essentials plugin) just translates all subsequent references to a file content into symlinks to the first encountered reference (that is being written as a file) that usually works but is semantically inaccurate. PRoot does it much better. That's why I recommend you to create or obtain only a minimalistic root-fs and then install all the necessary packages.

Some brief excerpts from this recommendation

Alpine

Possibly https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/ (see the "Mini root filesystem" list) will help you.

Debian

1. May the Force be with you (Alas, a PC is required):

• https://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch/QemuDebootstrap

2. Just upgrade from some extremely old one:

• https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd-Assets-Debian/tree/master/assets
• https://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/

[8itlew7r]

I hardcoded the root-fs zip file into the script and it looks like it worked!

[spoelstraethan]

postmarketOS is based on Alpine and still has some armv7 aka armhf support I believe.

[8itlew7r]

postmarketOS is based on Alpine and still has some armv7 aka armhf support I believe.

I am trying to find the location for rootfs (arm7) but it seems I am having a hard time finding it, do you have a link somehow? By the way, you don't need to bother, I'm already fine with my favorite distro (Alpine and Debian).

[spoelstraethan]

This might have been related? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:dependencies

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[8itlew7r]

This might have been related? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:dependencies
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Thank you!