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This is Just an Alternative to Installing and Symlinking Binaries for BusyBox!

After quite some time, I've noticed allot of individuals having so many issues regarding BusyBox.

I've shared my Binary BusyBox Installer with many XDA members for quite some time and have always recieved very positive feedback. Now I had decided to finally share it as a Developer on a New Thread instead of Posting it repedatively within other threads.

Amongst the many issues, here is a brief list of the 3 primary issues that encompass the majority of those issues that I've noticed regarding BusyBox:

1) The BusyBox Binaries will not properly install/symlink.

2) Those who has Toybox Binaries embedded within their ROM doesn't even know it.

3) Those who do know that Toybox is present, doesn't even know that they can also be BusyBox Symlinked too.

What is this Flashable Tool and what does it do?

This is not only a Flashable Installer of the BusyBox Stericson Binaries, It performs a few more helpful and VERY easy tasks.

Here is what the Installer does:

1) Installs the BusyBox Binary files.

2) Symlinks the BusyBox Binary files to the BusyBox App already Installed.

3) Locates and Symlinks the Toybox Binaries to the BusyBox App already installed.

This Flashable Zip file is really simple and cuts out additional steps and guessing.

What is Busy Box?

BusyBox is considered the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux.

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, 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. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.

Source: About BusyBox

What is Toybox?

Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable. It's simple, small, fast, and reasonably standards-compliant (POSIX-2008 and LSB 4.1).

Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. After a talk at the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference explaining this plan (outline, video), Google merged toybox into AOSP and began shipping toybox in Android Mashmallow.

Toybox aims to provide one quarter of a theoretical "minimal native development environment", which is the simplest Linux system capable of rebuilding itself from source code and then building Linux From Scratch and the Android Open Source Project under the result. In theory, this should only require four packages: 1) a set of posix-ish command line utilities, 2) a compiler[1], 3) a C library, and 4) a kernel. This provides a reproducible and auditable base system, which with the addition of a few convienciences (vi, top, shell command line history...) can provide a usable interactive experience rather than just a headless build server.

Source: About Toybox

Primary Download Link

Binary Installer for BusyBox Stericson

Alternative Download Link

Binary Installer for BusyBox Stericson

Prerequisite

Install Stericson's BusyBox App from the Play Store FIRST.

PLAYSTORE LINK TO THE BUSYBOX APP

Some Issues that may/may not be present

- [UNCONFIRMED] May or May Not work using other BusyBox Apps.

Special Mentions/Credits

Stericson - Developer of the BusyBox Application

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XDA:DevDB Information

[ZIP][TOOL][AIO]BusyBox Stericson Binary Installer {BB/TB Symlinked}[DISCONTINUED], Tool/Utility for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors

Ibuprophen

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 1.29.2

Stable Release Date: 2018-08-12

Created 2017-03-31

Last Updated 2019-04-16