A common way to get all of the GNU/Linux utilities on an Android phone is to set up a chroot environment, either on a dedicated partition or in a filesystem image. Both methods yeld the expected results, but the source of those files can make a difference. For instance, Debian armel binaries are compiled for ARMv4 and higher architectures with no support for hardware floating point functionality, while the newer armhf EABI targets ARMv7 and newer processors. This means that ARMv5 and v6 processors with the vector floating point unit get no love. However, with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi, which sports an ARMv6 processor, demanding mobile phone users can steal a bit of the love.

I've done this on a MSM7227-powered LG Optimus One (P500), but the same cpu can be found in a lot of phones, like the older Galaxy Mini, the Optimus Me and the list could continue. However, this should work on other, possibly newer processors too. Enough of the chatter, let's see how we can get a Raspbian chroot on the phone.

dd if=/dev/zero of=raspbian.img bs=1 count=0 seek=1G
mkfs.ext2 raspbian.img
tune2fs -c0 raspbian.img
mount -o loop,rw raspbian.img /mnt
debootstrap --foreign --no-check-gpg --include=ca-certificates --arch=armhf wheezy /mnt http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian
umount /mnt/
debootstrap --second-stage