Running Linux on android used to be a pain. You would have to root your device or download some broken emulator. As of today, running linux on Android is the easiest it has ever been thanks to the app Termux . Here’s how to run Linux on Android. Install Termux The first thing that you need to do is install the app Termux . It’s an android terminal emulator that will allow us to setup a proot environment so that we can run Ubuntu on Android.