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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid
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I just tried it 3 days ago on Fedora 40, Did not run for me.
Followed their wiki
How did you setup?
I don't remember tbh. I installed it a couple of years ago but used it for the first only recently.
Yeah I tried it on pop os a while back and never could get it running at all
Are yiu sure you're running Wayland and not X11?
Actually I was thinking of my arch system. You're right, I'm on x11
Yeah I'm on Wayland
At what point did it not work for you? I just got it running on Fedora 40 following their wiki.
on doing
waydroid app install myapk.apkIT says already running on doing
sudo waydroid container startI got it into android "desktopt" previously, but now after rebooting and trying to install an apk it seems to no longer be opening at all. Sorry :/
Edit: I just uninstalled and reinstalled via the software Center and now it works and I could install F-Droid.
don't run
sudothat breaks thingsFollowed their wiki
ah my bad, I misread, I thought you had tried
sudo waydroid app install.Failed to get service waydroidplatformusually happens when something fails when communciating to the container, this usually means the container is partially loaded so you will need to stop it and start again, you may even need to do a full rebootYou need a custom kernel, or a kernel module plus DKMS and kernel headers for your current kernel.
You also need the package that handles whatever filesystem they use for their containers.
Then, you need to be running it on Wayland or else it doesn't work.
The part that I'm stuck on is running games, which gives an error about not being able to find libmain.so, which might be an architecture mismatch problem. Maybe I can virtualize that part? But at that point I might as well just buy a phone.
can you report your issues to the waydroid github or check on the fedora forums? the matrix and telegram chats are always open to help too if you have a bit of patience.