Running Android apps through Waydroid on (Alma)Linux?

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Goal: trying to run Android apps on Linux

Hi all, I’m trying to put Waydroid on my AlmaLinux machine. AlmaLinux is kind of like an LTS flavored version Fedora you could say. It’s a community-driven Red Hat Enterprise Linux alternative. I’m using it as a general productivity desktop with KDE.

I can’t run seem to run Waydroid natively on this machine, as the Waydroid install instructions don’t support this distribution. And I really like this distro so I’d like to stay here.

What I’ve tried

I’ve tried running it in DistroBox, using an Arch container and then also an Ubuntu container. Maybe I did something wrong, but on both it gave me fatal errors. Something about a binder module and a systemd (sorry I forgot most of the error, I tried it 2 days ago). Let me know if anyone here has been able to run Waydroid through DistroBox.

What else could I try?

I’m open to trying any other solution, especially when there is good documentation I can follow to get it to work. I’m also open to trying an alternative to Waydroid but I really hope I’m able to get MicroG as well (I would love that as I’ll be able to run a lot more stuff).

Any guide/documentation would you recommend?

Thankyou for giving this post your attention : )

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Waydroid is very finicky, have you checked the Arch Wiki ?

Also, in case you may not be aware there are some considerable security concerns about it.

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Have you tried posting here?

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I have looked over it. Arch wiki installation instructions won’t work for Almalinux, as I need to pull a repository package called waydroid that AlmaLinux doesn’t have. Fedora does, and I found the installation quite easy on there (I already used Waydroid before).

Thanks for letting me know. I’m open for alternatives if you have any, but otherwise I’ll stick with the only option I have. I don’t feel that worried about the security, and my threat plan is pretty laid back on security goals.

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I can try asking there as well, thanks

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The Arch Wiki has instructions that apply in case using Arch distrobox and having issues, which was sounding your case.

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Thank you I see your point now, the error I got could possibly be resolved by following the instructions on the Arch Wiki page better. I might have to go read it better and take a while because I’m not that technically minded/skilled to understand it immediately but I’ll try.

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Valve’s Waydroid fork called Lepton is coming out soon, I expect that’ll be easier to use.

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