How To Install toybox on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install toybox
on Debian 12.
What is toybox
toybox is:
Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable that’s simple, small, fast, reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment.
There are three methods to install toybox
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install toybox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install toybox
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install toybox
Install toybox Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install toybox
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install toybox
Install toybox 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install toybox
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install toybox
How To Uninstall toybox on Debian 12
To uninstall only the toybox
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove toybox
Uninstall toybox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall toybox
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove toybox
Remove toybox Configurations and Data
To remove toybox
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge toybox
Remove toybox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove toybox
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toybox
Dependencies
toybox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install toybox
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.