How To Install toybox on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install toybox on Ubuntu.
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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove toybox
Remove toybox Configurations and Data
To remove toybox configuration and data from Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.