Re^2: Termux for all your Perl-needs on Android

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Didn't you once explain something like that Androids file system is problematic when installing Perl modules?

Was that a different approach?

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Re^3: Termux for all your Perl-needs on Android by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 26, 2018 at 08:32 UTC
No, it is the same approach. Termux offers you to install some symlinks so you can have $HOME on a common directory, like the Downloads directory or something. But if you stay within Termux, you can only ever get access to files saved from within Termux, as Android basically runs every app as its own user. If you have root, you can still access other files.	[reply]
Re^4: Termux for all your Perl-needs on Android by morgon (Priest) on Mar 26, 2018 at 11:47 UTC
On my Fire 7 (no root available alas) I can cannot access other apps directories (as you correctly mention they belong to different users), but I can access e.g. all the files below /sdcard. So from termux (or a perl-script running there) I can access e.g. the directory where usually downloads go etc, which is quite good enough for me....	[reply]

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