Welcome to my blog, in this article I will write about how to change the termux environment on 64bit devices to 32bit, for example from (aarch64 to armv71), which will allow us to install 32bit operating systems and software on our 64bit devices, I am writing this article because I recently published some tutorials that only work on 32-bit Android devices and some of the viewers asked me to make a video on how to install them on 64-bit machines, so here I am with a solution to that problem.

Computer architecture can be defined as a set of rules and methods that describe the functionality, management, and implementation of computers. To be precise, it is nothing more than the rules by which the system works and operates.

It is a type of CPU architecture that has the capacity to transfer 32 bits of data. It refers to the amount of data and information that your CPU can easily process while performing an operation. Most computers produced in the early 2000s and 1990s were 32-bit machines.

A single bit in a register can typically refer to a single byte. A 32-bit system is therefore capable of addressing approximately 4,294,967,296 bytes (4 GB) of RAM. Its actual limit is less than 3.5GB (typically) because the register part stores various other temporary values ​​in addition to memory addresses.

A 64-bit microprocessor allows computer systems to process information, data, and memory addresses represented by 64 bits. Such a system can typically reference 16 exabytes (17,179,869,184 GB) or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes of memory.

That’s many times a million times more than the average workstation would need to access. A 64-bit system (a computer with a 64-bit processor) has the capacity to access more than 4 GB of RAM. This means that if the computer has 8 GB of RAM, it requires a 64-bit processor. Otherwise, the CPU will be inaccessible for at least 4 GB of memory.

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After installing termux, the next thing to do is to update your termux packages, you can do this with the command:

apt update && apt upgrade -y

After updating termux Install the base package on your termux. Installing a new git package in the termux command line tool that can be used to download files or entire web pages.

apt install git wget screenfetch -y

The uname -m command retrieves information identifying the operating system you are running on. You will check the information about the devices. enter this command

uname -m

Screenfetch – Automatically detects your distro and displays your distro, kernel, uptime, number of packages installed, the shell you’re using, total and available disk space, CPU, GPU, and memory (used and available)

screenfetch

~ $ uname -m
aarch64
~ $ screenfetch
      ╲ ▁▂▂▂▁ ╱
      ▄███████▄
     ▄██ ███ ██▄
    ▄███████████▄      OS: Android 12
 ▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ █▄   Device: RMX3031 (RMX3031L1)
 ██ █████████████ ██   ROM: RMX3031_11_C.15
 ██ █████████████ ██   Baseband: unknown
 ██ █████████████ ██   Kernel: aarch64 Linux 4.14.186+
 ██ █████████████ ██   Uptime: 83 day
    █████████████      CPU: MT6893Z/CZA
     ███████████       GPU: MT6893Z/CZA
      ██     ██        RAM: 3956MiB / 7906MiB
      ██     ██
~ $

It’s a small and simple tool file written in bash, named “termux-arch-changer“. This tool is produced by us and is available exclusively on our GitHub repository. We can clone and install it from our GitHub repository using the following command to clone the tool from GitHub.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hamzahash/termux-arch-changer/main/termux-aarch-change

If you need more information about how the prefix changer works, enter the command

bash termux-aarch-change help 

That’s it for this article, if you have any questions let me know in the comment section below, bye for now.

~ $ bash termux-aarch-change help
Termux Prefix Switcher: Allows to switch 32-bit termux environment on 64-bit devices

Options:
 help - show this help
 switch - Switches to 32-bit Mode
 revert - Reverts to 64-bit Mode (This Uninstalls 32-bit prefix)

NOTE: Switching to 32-bit will not install packages automatically so you have to install them again if possible

Termux Prefix Switcher (version 1.3)
~ $

After downloading the tool you can Change your termux architecture Prefix change 64-bit termux to 32-bit. with the using the following command :

bash termux-aarch-change switch

The uname -m command retrieves information identifying the operating system you are running on. You will check the information about the devices. enter this command

uname -m

~ $ uname -m
armv71

NOTE: Switching to 32-bit will not install the packages automatically, so you need to install them again if possible

After changing Termux 32bit, the next thing to do is to update your termux packages, you can do this with the command:

apt update && apt upgrade -y

After downloading the tool you can Change your termux architecture Prefix change 64-bit termux to 32-bit. with the using the following command :

bash termux-aarch-change revert