Droid: Termux and prooted Debian or similar OS

[Manamama]

Your current package version starts to install both in Termux (the most tricky OS) and in prooted Debian there.

In very short for now:
Termux:

• Think hard which and apt install the packages as per the names here, equivalent libraries for Termux.
• Remove apt's rust - it is too old.
• Remove ~/.rustup/settings.toml (sic!)
• wget -c https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/aarch64-linux-android/rustup-init and chmod u+x it.
• Run RUSTUP_USE_RUSTLS=0 HOME=/data/data/com.termux/files/home ./rustup-init --default-host aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --default-toolchain nightly -y to install Rust 1.91.0-nightly, then add aarch64-linux-android target.
• Pray some so that it installs.
• apt install just , or if it does not work: git clone just: git clone https://github.com/casey/just
• Try installing this package with the new just using the usual method now, as per the Readme here.

Debian in Droid:

• Update all as per this project's readme: the package names are surprisingly the same.
• cargo install just --locked --root /usr/local because otherwise it somehow does not leave the /tmp and is then wrongly linked etc.
• Just as per the Readme here, too.

Update:
Almost there:
apt install xvfb is needed to pretend to be gtk and: xvfb-run -a just deps dev

Backend works:

root@localhost:~/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian# xvfb-run -a just deps dev                        cd frontend ; pnpm install                           Lockfile is up to date, resolution step is skipped   Already up to date                                   Done in 11.9s using pnpm v10.13.1
pnpm tauri dev                                                                                            > gemini-desktop@0.1.0 tauri /data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/frontend                                                  > tauri dev
                                                          Running BeforeDevCommand (`pnpm dev`)           
> gemini-desktop@0.1.0 dev /data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/frontend                                                    > vite                                                                                                            Warn Waiting for your frontend dev server to start on http://localhost:1420/...                        Running DevCommand (`cargo  run --no-default-features --color always --`)
                                                       VITE v6.3.5  ready in 6323 ms                                                                             ➜  Local:   http://localhost:1420/                         Info Watching /data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/crates/tauri-app for changes...                                          Info Watching /data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/crates/backend for changes...                                            Info Watching /data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/crates/server for changes...                                             Info Watching /data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/crates/tauri-app for changes...                                      Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 19.46s                                       Running Running `/data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/GitHub/gemini-desktop_Debian/target/debug/gemini-desktop`
                                    

while the front-end, alas still as below.

Then use just Kiwi or whatever at the Zygote's level.

ver. 1.2

[Manamama]

If with just deps dev-web and looking at http://0.0.0.0:1858, then always :

404: Not Found
The requested resource could not be found.

Rocket

with this:

   >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:             >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:             >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses
GET /api/process-statuses application/json:
   >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:
   >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:             >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:
   >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:             >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET /api/process-statuses application/json:
   >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses                                           GET / text/html:                                        >> Matched: (index) GET /<path..>                    >> Outcome: Error(404 Not Found)                     >> No 404 catcher registered. Using Rocket default.                                                       >> Response succeeded.                            GET /api/process-statuses application/json:             >> Matched: (get_process_statuses) GET /api/process-statuses

while http://localhost:1420/ almost works too, as per above.

[bl-ue]

Hi @Manamama, port 1420 is the development port and port 1858 is the production port. You're using dev-web as per the README, so it's expected that 1858 shouldn't work because it's only the backend--it doesn't host the frontend files. In production it also does host the frontend files. I should update the README to be more clear about this. I'll also add a note on building for production.

[bl-ue]

I also pushed a commit that tries to fix the blue block in the logo. That should really be the word "Desktop".

[Manamama]

I understand these ports in 80 percent (too busy to RTFM the code, sorry), but as per https://github.com/Piebald-AI/gemini-desktop/discussions/22#discussioncomment-13985074, it is the production port 1858 that shows:

404: Not Found
The requested resource could not be found.

Rocket

asap, a somewhat ugly as cryptic msg (as NOTHING else be shown, rendered) vs the "development" one error that at least "talks" a bit back to the User.

The dev port (whatever it may be) at least shows smth GUI wise too, see above, until that last mile...

Aha, while we are at it: https://github.com/Piebald-AI/gemini-desktop/discussions/22#discussioncomment-13991547 is not material, the huge left frame is, as it disables the typing on the puny mobile's geometries, unless one tries some Desktop View tricks (which also seems not to work much to toggle this). A size drag or even cancel button to wrap it up is needed. (But it does not work for me anyway yet, as per above, so it may be a moot point.)

[bl-ue]

Good point! We need a way to hide the sidebar. Also I updated the README to be more specific about the different ports.