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Installing Crave ​

Web ​

Open sessions tab and click on "Create Session/Connect" button.

Now, skip to the next section without worrying about entering Devspace CLI.

For menu, swipe from the middle of the left side of your phone. If you're on a computer/have access to a keyboard, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift. This menu allows you to customize the terminal, and switch input method, like phone keyboard instead of emulated one.

Crave RAS is built upon Apache Guacamole

There's also a VSCode Web Client, instructions to set this up can be found here

Windows ​

On windows, download the zip, extract it, enter it.

Right click somewhere blank on the folder and click on Open In Terminal. Alternatively,

cd /d Drive:\path\to\crave\folder\

(replacing Drive:\path\to\crave\folder\ with the full or relative path to your crave folder)

Tip: If you use powershell and crave is not recognised but crave.exe exists in your current folder, you can use ./crave.exe instead of crave to launch Devspace CLI. After that, go back to using crave when you enter Devspace CLI since it's a ubuntu environment with crave set up correctly.

Linux ​

  • If you're on linux, run this command to download crave binary
bash
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/accupara/crave/master/get_crave.sh | bash -s --
  • Run these commands to install it systemwide
bash
mkdir -p ${HOME}/bin/
bash
mv ${PWD}/crave ${HOME}/bin/
bash
sudo ln -sf /home/${USER}/bin/crave /usr/bin/crave; sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/crave

Mac ​

  • If you're on macOS, run this command to install crave
sh
brew install --cask crave

You will need to install homebrew beforehand.

Android ​

Installing on Termux ​

Guide to use termux's proot-distro for connecting to Crave Devspace: Link to proot-distro: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

Step 0: Install termux ​

Get it from PlayStore or F-Droid

NOTE

This guide is tested on F-Droid build

Step 1: Install proot-distro ​

Direct Command:

bash
pkg install proot-distro

Alternative:

bash
pkg install git
git clone https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
cd proot-distro

Step 2: Set Up a Container using Proot ​

Install Ubuntu:

bash
pd install ubuntu

Enter the Ubuntu Container:

bash
pd sh ubuntu

Prepare for crave by installing dependencies:

bash
apt update; apt install ssh rsync wget -y

Download Crave:

bash
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/accupara/crave/refs/heads/master/get_crave.sh | bash -s --

Grant Permissions and Move it:

bash
chmod +x crave; mv crave /usr/local/bin/

Step 2.5: Set up Credentials ​

Now open up your browser and navigate back to foss.crave.io dashboard. On the same Left Hand Side menu, and go to API keys.

  • Create a new one, name it whatever you like to easily identify it and click on Create API Key Button.
  • Copy it
  • Create a new file in your current shell called crave.conf
    • Paste the API Key here

Step 3: Connect ​

Once you take your valid crave.conf, just connect using crave -n devspace and return to the previous guide

NOTE

-n here tells crave to not look for updates. As of crave 7064, Updating step causes segmentation fault error, which can be worked around this way.

Step 3.5: Quick Reconnection ​

To Quickly reconnect, just run:

bash
pd sh ubuntu -- crave -n devspace

Notes: ​

if you facing issues:

  • try to exit from termux
  • then re-login with: pd sh ubuntu
  • then try again: crave -n devspace

Tested on ubuntu, though your results may vary.

You can try other distro: pd list

Thanks to Ica for discovering this method and writing the guide that this was based on