How to install Anbox on Kali Linux 2022.1

Chenny Ren
2 min readMay 4, 2022

Anbox puts the Android operating system into a container, abstracts hardware access and integrates core system services into a GNU/Linux system. It’s a great tool for doing android pentest. While installing anbox on linux has occured several errors, this article is a guide for installing on Kali linux 2022 (latest version) without error , which works for me well

  1. update kali linux repo and install anbox
sudo apt updatesudo apt install anbox

2. download android img

Download the latest image available at https://build.anbox.io/android-images/ and move it there:

sudo mkdir /var/lib/anboxsudo mv ~/Downloads/android*.img /var/lib/anbox/android.img

3. start the anbox service

Now to Start Android Container Manager Service

sudo service anbox-container-manager start

In case of issue before try to load the needed Kernel Modules with:

sudo modprobe ashmem_linux && sudo modprobe binder_linux

4. run anbox

use launcher to run Anbox app

Congratulations, then you can Start to Get and Install Android Apks into Anbox for Kali!

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Chenny Ren

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