prootie

Supercharges your PRoot experience.

prootie VS proot-distro

Login 40x faster than proot-distro.

Command	Mean [s]	Min [s]	Max [s]	Relative
proot-distro login alpine -- pwd	1.894 ± 0.070	1.739	2.004	42.71 ± 11.66
./prootie.sh login distros/alpine -- pwd	0.301 ± 0.022	0.270	0.337	6.79 ± 1.90
./prootie login distros/alpine -- pwd	0.044 ± 0.012	0.028	0.080	1.00

Quick start

Compile from source

On Termux:

cc -o "${PREFIX}/prootie" prootie.c -s -Os

On Linux:

cc -o prootie prootie.c -s -Os
sudo mv prootie /usr/local/bin/prootie

Manage distros with prootie-tui.sh

make sure you have gum installed

./tmp/prootie_tui.sh

Manage distros manually

Install rootfs

version=3.20.3
DISTROS_DIR=${HOME}/.prootie/distros
mkdir -p "${DISTROS_DIR}"

arch=$(uname -m)
version_main=$(echo "${version}" | grep -Eo "^[0-9]\.[0-9]+")
archive=alpine-minirootfs-${version}-${arch}.tar.gz
rootfs_url=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v${version_main}/releases/${arch}/${archive}

curl -Lk "${rootfs_url}" | gzip -d | prootie -v install ./alpine

Login rootfs

prootie login ./alpine

Archive rootfs

prootie archive ./alpine | gzip > alpine.tar.gz

Clone rootfs

prootie archive ./alpine | prootie install ./alpine2

Tested distros

distro	status	notes
almalinux (9)	OK
alt (p11)	OK
alpine (3.20)	OK
amazonlinux	OK
archlinux	OK
debian (bookworm)	OK
voidlinux (musl)	OK	vi /etc/passwd to change login shell to bash
fedora (40)	OK
ubuntu (noble)	OK	touch /root/.hushlogin
busybox (1.36.1)	OK
gentoo (openrc)	OK
kali	OK
rockylinux (9)	OK
openwrt (23.05)	OK

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