How to install and run Anbox in Ubuntu 18.04?

Question

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.

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, May 08 '18 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, May 09 '18 at 02:22
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, May 09 '18 at 16:36
Check also Waydroid, A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system — Pablo Bianchi, May 03 '22 at 19:35
@PabloBianchi Will it be possible to run playstore in linux using Waydroid? — Maaz Ahmad Khan, May 29 '22 at 10:13

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 01 '20 at 20:13

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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

edited Jun 01 '20 at 20:13

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Jun 15 '18 at 10:05

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for snap use command sudo apt-get install snapd – Jasom Dotnet Aug 02 '18 at 13:07

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 01 '20 at 20:14

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There is now an official snap for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic.

sudo snap install --devmode --beta anbox

edited Jun 01 '20 at 20:14

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Jul 14 '18 at 16:52

imichaeldotorg

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How to install and run Anbox in Ubuntu 18.04?

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