[Phablet in lockscreen] Well, I decided to finally take the plunge after weeks of reading here how to get Ubuntu Touch on the BraX3. All went pretty smoothly but it did take hours because the instructions aren’t in 1 thread…also the instructions for flashing Lunar OS within Linux needs help! Spe…

The whereis command does work in UT. When I first installed UT I was trying to find things using locate and that is not installed. Using Libertine I was able to install plocate but it should include updatedb and did not, so I’m not sure if plocate works. Thanks for letting me know about the whereis …

It may be using busybox, try the busybox command

Excellent! Right again George! [screenshot20260205_144314930] [screenshot20260205_144302475] [screenshot20260205_144251724]

It seems to use some mixed configuration, xz exists there but not whereis, try to run xz like busybox xz or somehting similar. Can you run xz alone? Why tar couldn’t find it? You’ll have to create symbolic links to busybox inside the /bin directory so that you can call busybox commands directly.

xz by itself says command not found. It is found with this: busybox xz

So you can create a link in /bin sudo ln -s /bin/busybox xz /bin/xz Or sudo busybox ln -s /bin/busybox xz /bin/xz Or something like that

Problem Houston-this version of UT is a read-only file system. The second command took but returned the statement twice that this is a read-only file system. It lets me create files in my /home directory so this might be something that the rest of the system is read only. It’s an 11 year old vers…

I also got libappimage uncompressed on my UT.

I put vlc uncompressed in my home directory and then moved the vlc-gui executable into the same directory as the executables from the first vlc package but it is looking for /usr/bin/vlc and that directory has been mounted read-only.

Similarly to the AppImage you can compile a snap package and install it, search on the internet how this can be done.

My Linux Phablet installed!

BraX3 Ubuntu Touch

Lazarus February 6, 2026, 3:35am 63

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