The current su doesn’t have the suid bit set and the /system is mounted with nosuid. I remember you said that you didn’t need the suid bit, because you’ve made some changes in the sources.
And I see two thinks related to su:
to get root access by running su from a terminal emulator
to make apps think the device is rooted
Without (1) I can’t remount /system to install system apps, unless adb+sudo works.
Managed to get the Opengapps image onto the osmc drive OK, using Bitvise (alongside PUTTY) on my PC.
Managed to (using a MAC Terminal) to get as far as "find -name… ". Nothing found, as far as I can tell. (NB Because of different usernames, I couldn’t perform the above part (i.e. getting the Opengapps image copied across, so had to use my PC).
The rest (from ‘find naked -type f’ onwards gets me the response:
bash: type: f: not found
bash: type: -name: not found
bash: type: *.apk: not found
Since I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing (simply following the guidelines), no idea what this means or what I can do about it!
The unpack/copy instructions work on Vero2.
On Windows, use pscp to copy the zip and the md5 files from opengapps to Vero2, and continue from Vero2.
On Mac use: scp Downloads/open_gapps* osmc@VERO2-IP:
Instead of using the IP of your Vero2, you could use osmc.local (or something like this, depending on how you named your device; see Kodi/Services/General)
You can copy the gapps from any system as long as you:
mount the second partition of the Android SD card (the one having etc directory present; this partition is auto-mounted by OSMC on /media/adb… with the august Android image) - it’s an ext4 partition
unpack all the .tar.lz files from that zip to a new directory
move all these unpacked files (ignoring the duplicates) to the destination/mounted partition using the following patterns:
move apk files from priv-app dirs to priv-app dir of the mounted Android SD card partition
move all the other apk files to app dir
move so files to lib dir
move jar files to framework dir
move xml files (some with dirs) to etc dir
make sure all the files/dirs from these 5 destination dirs are owned by the root user
The find naked -type f -name instructions automate most of the move job, with the exception of xml files, which must be moved one by one (files or dirs).
Sorry - I realise that my post didn’t properly reflect reality.
Gapps HAS been copied onto the Vero2 successfully.
The problem came when I tried to run the command 'find naked… ’ on the Vero2 and got the error bash responses as outlined in my post when using my Mac Terminal (similar to the command prompt on Linux or using Putty on Windows).
I couldn’t see a directory/ folder media/adb - I hadn’t appreciated that I needed to run ‘sudo su’ to allow root privileges first in order that the directory can be seen.
However, I have now managed to run everything but I still don’t seem to have access to the Google Play store - clicking on the Google Play icon still doesn’t work - all I get is a red box around the screen flashing on & then it just returns to the same screen.
You have to launch Google Play from the screen were you have all the other installed apps (you have a button in the bottom-middle area of your Home screen). I didn’t use the Google Play shortcut found on Home screen after the first boot.
You can make your own shortcuts on your Homescreen: use a mouse, press and keep the left mouse on one of the apps from the Apps screen, after 2 seconds you can position it on your Homescreen, and release the mouse button.
I don’t recall ever seeing a Google Play icon on the home screen.
The one I’ve been trying to use is accessed from the centrally placed icon (looks a bit like a circular telephone keypad). Apart from Gapps, all the apps/ icons are the ones in the standard download from the OSMC downloads page.
The only icons I have on the ‘home’ screen are the three default ones.
