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This document provides instructions for installing Linux on an unrooted Android phone using an app called GNURoot. It outlines 3 steps: 1) Download and install GNURoot from the Google Play Store. 2) Use GNURoot to download and install a Linux distribution like Wheezy or Fedora. 3) Launch the installed Linux distro files within a "fake root" environment created by GNURoot, allowing you to run Linux on your unrooted Android phone.

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This document provides instructions for installing Linux on an unrooted Android phone using an app called GNURoot. It outlines 3 steps: 1) Download and install GNURoot from the Google Play Store. 2) Use GNURoot to download and install a Linux distribution like Wheezy or Fedora. 3) Launch the installed Linux distro files within a "fake root" environment created by GNURoot, allowing you to run Linux on your unrooted Android phone.

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12/4/2019 How to Install Linux On Android Phone Without Rooting » TechWorm

How To Install Linux On Android Phone


Without Rooting
By vijay - November 11, 2016

How to install Linux on an Unrooted Android


smartphone
Getting Linux on an Android smartphone is the ultimate dream of any Linux fanboy. To have
both Android operating system and rich Linux on your smartphone is a must for any
programmer. We have already given a tutorial for installing Kali Linux on your Android
smartphone but that requires rooting the Android device. In this tutorial, we will teach you
how to install Linux on an unrooted Android smartphone.

How to Install Linux On Android Phone Without


Rooting
Using this method, you will be installing all the Linux files on your Android smartphone by
downloading them and then using the complete interface for your pentesting or any other
security that you like.

You can do all this without rooting your Android smartphone using a superb App
called GNURoot. GNURoot creates a fake root environment on your Android smartphone
and fools the Linux files into believing they are being implemented on a rooted smartphone.

Follow all the steps below to proceed :

Step 1. First of all, head over to Google Play Store to download and install GNURoot. This
App allows you to install Linux files on your Android smartphone without rooting by creating a
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fake Linux running platform.

Step 2. Once installed, the App panel will give you to install lots of distro Linux roots like
Wheezy, Fedora, Aboriginal, and Gentoo. Choose one of them and then simply tap on
“Create New Rootfs” and wait for the process to get complete.

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Step 3. Once the download process is complete, simply select the distro in the second drop
down list and then simply tick on the option “Launch as Fake Root.” Tap on Launch Rootfs
that will launch all Roots file on a fake Linux platform.

That’ it, You now have successfully installed Linux on your Android smartphone. Now you
can easily install the extra Linux packages that you need and run the Linux distro with ease.

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