How To Install anbox on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install anbox on Ubuntu.

What is `anbox`

anbox is:

Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system.

In other words: Anbox will let you run Android on your Linux system without the slowness of virtualization.

Anbox uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.

The Android inside the container has no direct access to any hardware. All hardware access is going through the anbox daemon on the host. It reuses what Android implemented within the QEMU-based emulator for OpenGL ES accelerated rendering. The Android system inside the container uses different pipes to communicate with the host system and sends all hardware access commands through these.

This package needs Android kernel modules and rootfs image, see /usr/share/doc/anbox/README.Debian for information.

There are three methods to install anbox on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install anbox Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install anbox using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install anbox

Install anbox Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install anbox using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install anbox

Install anbox Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install anbox using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install anbox

How To Uninstall anbox on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the anbox package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove anbox

Uninstall anbox And Its Dependencies

To uninstall anbox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove anbox

Remove anbox Configurations and Data

To remove anbox configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge anbox

Remove anbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove anbox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge anbox

Dependencies

anbox have the following dependencies:

References

anbox website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install anbox package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.