[Toybox] Toybox on Google play. Was: Fw: [Aboriginal] Aboriginal Linux on Google play.

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:31:48 -0400 dmccunney
<dennis.mccunney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:44 AM, David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Now that the name and logo are sorted, time to write code.  I'm
> > keeping the source here -
> >
> > https://github.com/onefang/toyboxInstaller
> 
> "Likely root will be needed, though I think there are non root ways of
> running things like toybox."
> 
> There would seem to be.  See
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monami_ya.onebox.manager
> 
> It installs Busybox as a non-root application. It requires Android
> Terminal Emulator.  Seems to work here on my tablet running 4.2
> Jellybean
> 
> Source is at https://bitbucket.org/onebox/oneboxpackagemanager

Which itself is just an app wrapper around an arm binary KBOK2 installer
that does this -

http://kevinboone.net/kbox2_install.html

Which in turn uses libfakechroot.  I can add that later.

> (Though I suspect people inclined to install toybox on Android will
> have or want a rooted device.)

Which is why I'll initially target rooted device users.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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