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[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-08, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 1:58:00 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-03-08, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.... at telia.com> wrote: 
>> > Den 2022-03-08 kl. 02:53, skrev Arne Vajhøj: 
>> >> 
>> >> I am aware of it. 
>> >> 
>> >> But it is not my impression that it is widely used. 
>> > 
>> > Can't use it since it requires Python 3. 
>> >
>> I had to install Python 3 on my Android phone recently and wanted 
>> to run some proper Unix CLI tools on the phone to go with it. :-) 
>> 
>> I did it by installing PRoot into a supported terminal emulator 
>> running on Android, then unpacking a barebones Alpine Linux userland 
>> image on top of that, and then installing Python 3 from the 
>> Alpine software repository. 
>> 
>> That's the kind of thing you can now do outside of the VMS world...
>
> And where did you learn how to do that?  
>
> A manual, someone else showing you?

My Linux/Unix knowledge allowed me to search for the kinds of tools
I thought I would need to achieve this, and was followed by reading
the documentation for those tools once I found them.

Once I had the barebones userland installed on top of the emulation
layer, everything else was just standard Linux system management and
user usage concepts.

I had never used Alpine Linux before, but in the Linux world, while
some management commands and capabilities differ between different
Linux distributions, the general core concepts remain the same.

Simon.

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