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How To Code On Your Smartphone (With A Terminal)

Khauri on May 03, 2020

Overview In this article I'm going to show you how to use Termux to install nodejs, set up a react app with create-react-app, and edit t...

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Josias Aurel • Jul 16 '20

Unfortunately the above command didn't work for me :

No command tcpsvd found, did you mean:
 Command pcscd in package pcscd from the root-repo repository
 Command tclsh in package tcl
 Command tcsh in package tcsh

Can you help ?

Khauri • Jul 16 '20

Interesting. I might be misremembering, but I thought tcpsvd came pre-installed with termux.

I believe you can also get it from busybox by using pkg install busybox.

You could also use other (and probably better) means of starting the ftp server, such as the one listed here: wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Access

Let me know if you're able to figure it out. I'll try and do some more investigating and get back to you.

Josias Aurel • Jul 16 '20

I already have it installed . It won't work

Khauri • Jul 18 '20

Hey I did some testing and can confirm that tcpsvd doesn't seem to come with newer installations of termux, but it is still available form busybox.

After installing busybox you're meant to run tcpsvd (and any of its other commands) by putting busybox in front of it.

busybox tcpsvd [...options]

If you prefer you can also run this command

ln -s busybox $PREFIX/bin/tcpsvd

Which will allow you to run tcpsvd without prefixing it with busybox like normal.

Josias Aurel • Jul 19 '20

Thanks for your help anyway

Alejandro V. • May 3 '20

Good stuff, thanks. I tried doing this a while back, but gave up when termux didn't see the files I created with the code editor I was using.

Idris Abdul-Lateef • Oct 21 '21

Finally got the ftp server up. But it doesn't show any files on Acode when I connect it to the server; it's just blank. I can't create a file or folder on the "blank" server either. This happened in another ftp client I connected to the server.

But I connected Google Chrome and it worked! Folders and files were displayed and all. What's up with that?

Idris Abdul-Lateef • Oct 21 '21 • Edited

After a lot of hassle, I installed the react app. (I really don't know; termux closes by itself when the installation is complete)

However, when I go into the my-app folder and run "npm start", this is what it shows:

npm ERR! missing script: "start"

harshG775 • Oct 4 '23

It's can be because you are running "npm start"
outside of termux folder

BELearn • Jul 27 '22

Hello if you have error connection Ftp between trimux and acode do this :

Warning: plain FTP is deprecated and insecure anyway. Termux FTP server supports only anonymous login, there no any authentication and everyone on your network can access files on your device. Use SFTP (OpenSSH) instead!

Termux FTP server is based on busybox and service is managed by [Termux-services]. If you decided to use FTP server, install these packages:

pkg install busybox termux-services
After installation you need to restart session or source this file:

source $PREFIX/etc/profile.d/start-services.sh
Now you ready to enable and start the FTP daemon service:

sv-enable ftpd
sv up ftpd
FTP server will run on port 8021 in read-only mode.

If you need to stop server, run sv down ftpd.

Uwem • May 17 '21

Thanks for the article. For me

busybox tcpsvd -vE 0.0.0.0 1024 busybox ftpd -w ~

Worked after granting Termux file storage permission

Shahid • Jan 11 '21 • Edited

Didn't work. This is the response.

Babajide Ibiayo • Mar 13 '21

Could not get ftp server up. Did some research and this helped get the ftpd up. wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Access

Amalaj5025 • Jun 30 '21

Cant get the ftp up