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I am a newbie to Ubuntu and I want to install Anbox (GitHub).

I am having trouble installing Anbox the way given in the current tutorials.

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    Anbox doesn't even support Artful. There is no PPA for Bionic. I spent too much time trying to make it work on Ubuntu 18.04 but kernel module just didnt work. Your best bet is to rebuild from sources..
    – Eskander Bejaoui
    Commented May 8, 2018 at 15:35
  • @karel because the snap package only contains an installer script of several kilobytes.. the actual anbox container's size is about 400MB and it's downloaded on the first launch from a PPA. Edit: I see that you already mentioned that in your answer
    – Eskander Bejaoui
    Commented May 9, 2018 at 2:22
  • Sorry, I am a newbie. How do I rebuild from source?
    – Maaz Ahmad Khan
    Commented May 9, 2018 at 7:15
  • you can follow the steps from the original github repo, the build fails midway for me although there are reports of successful builds on bionic in the issues section. @karel welcome
    – Eskander Bejaoui
    Commented May 9, 2018 at 16:36
  • Check also Waydroid, A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system
    – Pablo Bianchi
    Commented May 3, 2022 at 19:35

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Anbox is now available for Bionic 18.04+:

Installation on Ubuntu 18.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:morphis/anbox-support
sudo apt install -y anbox-modules-dkms
sudo modprobe ashmem_linux
sudo modprobe binder_linux
sudo snap install --devmode --beta anbox
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  • for snap use command sudo apt-get install snapd
    – Jasom Dotnet
    Commented Aug 2, 2018 at 13:07
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There is now an official snap for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic.

sudo snap install --devmode --beta anbox

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