Anbox for Debian

[Id405]

Has anyone been able to get keyboard input working yet?

[nas]

Has anyone been able to get keyboard input working yet?

It appears to be an issue with the virtual keyboard rather than anbox itself - squeekboard seems to map keys in an odd way for some desktop apps, see this issue:

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/-/issues/168

[Transistor4acpu]

I get error messages when I try to install the anbox kernel modules to Kernel 5.7. Is there a solution for that problem?

[tophneal]

I get error messages when I try to install the anbox kernel modules to Kernel 5.7. Is there a solution for that problem?

See:

This has been brought up in the Anbox github issues, and there is a solution that isn't reverting your kernel version. ashmem and binder are now part of mainline kernel, and can be enabled to allow for installation: https://github.com/anbox/anbox-modules/i...-643728906 Just recompile your kernel and enable the flags. Someone was kind enough to update the Arch wiki page with the now necessary steps: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anbox

Apparently, you'll want to remove any previous installation attempts first.

You need to rebuild the kernel with those flags enabled.

[nas]

I get error messages when I try to install the anbox kernel modules to Kernel 5.7.

What error messages and which distro are using? Pretty sure it was working in mobian but I haven't tested it for a while.

[a-wai]

Apparently the anbox modules are now upstream (and previous version can't be built with 5.7), so we need to provide a build which includes these as default.
This should happen within a few days, don't worry

[a-wai]

Latest kernel now includes binder and ashmem, you should be able to run anbox again.

[Transistor4acpu]

Thanks for the help and the Kernel.
But how do I install anbox? apt install anbox don't work and I can't install it with snapd.

[arturo2bodegas]

This is frustrating, for sure...looks like it's targeted towards ubuntu systems, but ubuntu is built on debian...I've got snap installed, and got the anbox-installer snap installed, but it seems that maybe that's deprecated now? I cloned the anbox git and tried to compile it from source, but I just don't have the linux skills (yet). C compiler is throwing up errors...but maybe it shouldn't be necessary to build from source? I don't know. I can tell you that you won't find an anbox .deb in the repos, so I wouldn't bother with apt.

[nas]

But how do I install anbox? apt install anbox don't work

Looks like you have to add contrib to /etc/apt/sources.list for apt install to work but there appears to be a further problem with modprobe failing to find binder or ashmem in the kernel modules directory. I'm guessing there's a further step beyond enabling them in the kernel?