Anbox service not starting after fresh install. about anbox

[morphis]

@maxolasersquad Which operating system are you using?

[maxolasersquad]

Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit

[morphis]

Ah, don't run initctl as sudo! You need to run it as a regular user and the anbox-installer doesn't do that too. See https://github.com/anbox/anbox-installer/blob/master/installer.sh#L171

[maxolasersquad]

The anbox installer has to run as sudo (right?). So when it tries to run initctl, it's running as root. Am I missing something?

$ snap install --classic anbox-installer && anbox-installer
error: access denied (try with sudo)

$ sudo snap install --classic anbox-installer && anbox-installer
[sudo] password for david: 
anbox-installer 1 from 'morphis' installed
zsh: command not found: anbox-installer

$ sudo snap install --classic anbox-installer
Android in a Box - Installer


IMPORTANT: THIS IS ALPHA LEVEL SOFTWARE. EXPECT INSTABILITY AND
           BUGS !!!!!

IMPORTANT: ALSO PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE DON'T PROVIDE FULL
           CONFINEMENT FOR THE SNAP YET !!!!
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[morphis]

@maxolasersquad No, the anbox-installer should be run as sudo but I see this is a regular failure people are doing. Just run anbox-installer as regular user. The script will use sudo when needed.

[maxolasersquad]

As you can see from my output above, only sudo can see the anbox-installer.

[morphis]

anbox/anbox-installer#2 should help here.

@maxolasersquad Everyone can see anbox-installer. I guess it's just not in your PATH. Add export PATH=$PATH:/snap/bin and it will work. Otherwise run as /snap/bin/anbox-installer.

[maxolasersquad]

Adding that to my path seemed to do the trick. FWIW, the website should probably be updated to indicate that snap install --classic anbox-installer needs sudo, while the other cannot use sudo.