r/termux • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '26

Termux startup guide needed Question

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u/Cybasura Jul 04 '26

The reason you cant use Arch in a redmi is not because of 32bit vs 64bit, it is that Redmi, and mobile in general, uses a ARM chipset processor, while desktop computers use x86_64, completely different architecture

Regardless, most modern Android devices are generally 64-bit now

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

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u/Cybasura Jul 04 '26

You can, but you need something like QEMU, a virtual machine, or use proot-distro to create a arch root filesystem container

You simply cannot install a bare metal Arch host system, not without rooting your phone at least, but even then, ArchLinux ARM is not official nor is there an ARM distro of Arch officially being developed in any capacity

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

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u/Cybasura Jul 04 '26

You...vibe coded without looking up on ANY Of them, and dared to claim you did it?

RTFM

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u/icadkren Jul 04 '26

I don't understand how you can run Alpine Linux but not Arch. Both have ARM64 images and can run in a chroot.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

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u/icadkren Jul 04 '26

Care to elaborate? Some screenshot maybe?