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["Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions only, don't use)" <accounts@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tip.

Sadly, however, it doesn't work with ssh either for me. I get the same
error.



On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 14:02 +0200, Torsten Sachse wrote:
> Hi. I had the same problem. Try turning on the ssh service using "sudo 
> service ssh start" (if it's not running already), then ssh into your phone 
> from the terminal itself "ssh localhost". Dont forget to add your own ssh 
> key to authorized_keys. Then try the chroot command again. For some reason, 
> the chroot command works from within an ssh session but not from the 
> terminal itself when the chroot is located in the home directory. At least 
> on my BQ that's the case. I have no idea why. Do any of the developers 
> know? Somehow, exec permissions seem to be missing on the mount. I can't 
> even execute a script in my home directory when I'm not in an ssh session 
> although I set exec permission on the file via chmod.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Torsten
> 
> Sent from my awesome BQ
> 
> On Thursday, 14 May 2015 00:30:40 CEST, Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions 
> only, don't use) wrote:
> > Thanks, this looks promising.
> >
> > However, the chroot command only yields:
> >
> > chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 17:19 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> >> If you want to use CLI tools installed via debs, you need to do it this
> >> way:
> >> 
> >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/620740/how-to-install-regularcli-deb-packages-on-bq-aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-edition/623311#623311
> >> 
> >> Making the phone writable and installing debs to the root partition will
> >> end up with those installs likely being destroyed at some point when the
> >> system image is updated, and/or the phone becoming broken if you try to
> >> use apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade to upgrade the phone. It isn't built
> >> around using apt, so using apt is not supported.
> >> 
> >> Using a chroot will allow you to install and use CLI utilities as you
> >> need them, and keep such a system in a container away from the main
> >> system (unless you bind mount things, but even then only limited
> >> exposure exists).
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 22:26 +0200, Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions
> >> only, don't use) wrote:
> >> > I wanted to install the dict cmd line client, but package can't be found
> >> > through the standard repositories.
> >> > 
> >> > Is there a repository that would have a compatible version for
> >> > AquarisE4.5(r22).
> >> > 
> >> > If a downloadable .deb, which compiled format should I use, or do I have
> >> > to compile on the phone directly?
> >> 
> >
> >
> >
>