How To Install busybox on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install busybox
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is busybox
busybox is:
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks for any of the supported utilities. Some of the utilities can be used in the system by installing the busybox-syslogd, busybox-udhcpc or busybox-udhcpd packages.
Package: busybox Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:1.30.1-4ubuntu6.2 Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 794 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28) Conflicts: busybox-static Breaks: initramfs-tools (« 0.99) Replaces: busybox-static Filename: pool/universe/b/busybox/busybox_1.30.1-4ubuntu6.2_amd64.deb Size: 415916 MD5sum: f14511e2e9affe2e5cfff6384e6dce5d SHA1: 41bce2f8e2809d20091d39e5eb311aac45311e22 SHA256: 886e9eab3aa19552ff1447e5108c78d95f2a9edabe90b921299eac1c5da98ac2 SHA512: aa600ed94246e84c52547e5833a212bfb88ac6154289c6f42c7c93b47dd18e6bfc730b15719bffde22516fa56940de734a184b614dc3779b19f100a07d48f94b Homepage: http://www.busybox.net Description-en: Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks for any of the supported utilities. Some of the utilities can be used in the system by installing the busybox-syslogd, busybox-udhcpc or busybox-udhcpd packages.
Package: busybox Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:1.30.1-4ubuntu6 Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 794 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28) Conflicts: busybox-static Breaks: initramfs-tools (« 0.99) Replaces: busybox-static Filename: pool/universe/b/busybox/busybox_1.30.1-4ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 415132 MD5sum: d12e754a28bcff0be0a4068edef714d9 SHA1: ef047b168ef3549dbfbd946d0000911ecc45cc34 SHA256: b5ef98591b16044a34e94a5bb2af9efb23430f8346d3b353bc32549bfe688aa7 Homepage: http://www.busybox.net Description-en: Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks for any of the supported utilities. Some of the utilities can be used in the system by installing the busybox-syslogd, busybox-udhcpc or busybox-udhcpd packages.
There are three methods to install busybox
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install busybox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install busybox
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install busybox
Install busybox Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install busybox
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install busybox
Install busybox Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install busybox
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install busybox
How To Uninstall busybox on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the busybox
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove busybox
Uninstall busybox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall busybox
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove busybox
Remove busybox Configurations and Data
To remove busybox
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge busybox
Remove busybox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove busybox
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge busybox
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install busybox
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.