Fails to install on Android (Termux)

[igorgatis]

What version of Codex is running?

No response

Which model were you using?

No response

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.1.124-android14-11-g8d713f9e8e7b-ab13202960 aarch64 unknown

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Install termux on a android phone. Open tmux and run:

npm i -g @openai/codex

What is the expected behavior?

No response

What do you see instead?

> @vscode/ripgrep@1.15.14 postinstall
> node ./lib/postinstall.js

Unhandled rejection:  Promise {
  <rejected> Error: Unknown platform: android
      at getTarget (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:49:24)
      at main (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:104:26)
} reason: Error: Unknown platform: android
    at getTarget (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:49:24)
    at main (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:104:26)

Additional information

Possible fix microsoft/vscode-ripgrep#76

[myudak]

Exact same thing, also i cant login with gpt plus, even with copying the auth.json still error

⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses); retrying 1/5
in 215ms…

[bolinfest]

Hmm, I think #3660 should fix this once we cut a release with it?

This workflow from that PR:

https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/17961595388/job/51085840022?pr=3660

Wrote the test build of the npm package to:

https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/17961595388/artifacts/4088342212

If you could verify that works for you on Termux, I'd appreciate it!

[KyongSik-Yoon]

install failed on termux

~ ❯❯❯ npm i -g @openai/codex ✘ 1

@vscode/ripgrep@1.15.14 postinstall
node ./lib/postinstall.js

Unhandled rejection: Promise {
Error: Unknown platform: android
at getTarget (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:49:24)
at main (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:104:26)
} reason: Error: Unknown platform: android
at getTarget (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:49:24)
at main (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/postinstall.js:104:26)

changed 11 packages in 4s

[bolinfest]

@KyongSik-Yoon The PR is not merged yet, and even once it has, you will have wait until we cut a new release that uses it. I am asking you to download the version at https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/17961595388/artifacts/4088342212 and to run it directly.

[bolinfest]

For the moment, you can also try:

npm install -g @openai/codex@0.41.0-alpha.1

though I would uninstall it once we have an official 0.41.0 release and then stick with:

npm install -g @openai/codex

[bolinfest]

@KyongSik-Yoon @myudak @igorgatis 0.41.0 is out with the fix, so please try now and report back: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openai/codex

[myudak]

@KyongSik-Yoon @myudak @igorgatis 0.41.0 is out with the fix, so please try now and report back: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openai/codex

Whats changed on that version can i still login with chatgpt account on termux without the browser gui? or paste the token etc

[bolinfest]

@myudak For ChatGPT login without the browser GUI, see https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/authentication.md#connecting-on-a-headless-machine.

[bolinfest]

@myudak It sounds like this specific issue is resolved, so closing.

[igorgatis]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm getting:

$ npm i -g @openai/codex

added 1 package in 4s
$ codex
error: "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/vendor/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/codex/codex" has unexpected e_type: 2

[stableversion]

@myudak The reason you get ⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url is because codex bin is using musl. Simply build codex-rs yourself and it will work.

[bolinfest]

@myudak We do build x86_64 binaries for Linux, but it is hard to distribute those in a way that "just works" for everyone since it depends on your libc.

Termux is Debian based? How many versions of Debian would we have to build for to make this all work?