busybox install help plz

[tdawg5480]

One might say if you dont know what your doing dont do it but im learning more and more linux by the day so to widen my droids reach I installed busybox however i read on some apps in market says busybox needs to be installed in system/bin or system/xbin I used a tutorial that put it in /data/busybox does it matter where its installed? i used this tut
Re:Got root? Need more? Install Busybox! - AndroidFanatic Community Forums should i just redo it for system/bin? i know it works because some new commands work when i use better terminal emulator......advice is appreciated THKS

[lvlln]

I'd like some help, too. I can install BusyBox fine and use all its tools, but I have to type in

export PATH=/data/busybox:$PATH

each and every time I open a shell in order to use the BusyBox commands. Either that or manually call the command by giving its full path (e.g. /data/busybox/ls) How can I permanently add /data/busybox to the PATH variable?

Also, BusyBox's ls command outputs are a little hard to read due to having no space before the name of each file/folder. Is there a tag to make it more human-readable? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

[cellulararrest]

if you don't want to type the path to busybox everytime you want to run it... Just move it to /system/bin and chmod to 755 (probably don't even need 755 since you're root, but that's easy enough).

[kevdog]

You can also put busybin in /system/xbin (which you have to create the xbin directory since the xbin directory does not exist by default).

/system/xbin is in the default path.

Most tutuorials then tell you that you can use busybox like this (This is an example of using the busybox cp command):

busybox cp <source> <destination>

.
However if you want to do away with the busybox prefix, while in the /system/xbin directory you can do the following:

busybox --install <install_destination_directory>

.
So if in the /system/xbin directory this would be:

busybox --install .

.
If outside the /system/xbin directory you would have to specify the install directory.

So the entire code would be the following:

$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# mkdir /system/xbin
# cd /system/xbin
# cat /sdcard/busybox > busybox
# chmod 755 busybox
busybox --install .
# mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ busybox
BusyBox v1.15.2 (2009-12-02 21:29:32 EST) multi-call binary
Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko
and others. Licensed under GPLv2.
See source distribution for full notice.

.
So the net result of doing all of this is that referring to the first example, all you would have to do to use the busybox cp command would be the following:

cp <source> <destination>

[dustin4863]

every time i go to my command prompt to access the adb i get
"The system cannot find the path specified." or
"The name specified is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

but its not only for the adb i cant access ipconfig,defrag or ping what is the deal here has anyone seen this

[tdawg5480]

im following kevdogs post there but i get invalid cross device link when i get to the install part

[lvlln]

I see, thank you, that works. Now, I'd like to have it so that I don't have to type in "busybox" every time, but I'm also worried about cluttering up xbin with all of busybox's commands. Is there a way to change the name of the busybox command to something shorter, like "bb?" Copying busybox to bb didn't seem to work.

You can also put busybin in /system/xbin (which you have to create the xbin directory since the xbin directory does not exist by default).

/system/xbin is in the default path.

Most tutuorials then tell you that you can use busybox like this (This is an example of using the busybox cp command):

busybox cp <source> <destination>

.
However if you want to do away with the busybox prefix, while in the /system/xbin directory you can do the following:

busybox --install <install_destination_directory>

.
So if in the /system/xbin directory this would be:

busybox --install .

.
If outside the /system/xbin directory you would have to specify the install directory.

So the entire code would be the following:

$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# mkdir /system/xbin
# cd /system/xbin
# cat /sdcard/busybox > busybox
# chmod 755 busybox
busybox --install .
# mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ busybox
BusyBox v1.15.2 (2009-12-02 21:29:32 EST) multi-call binary
Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko
and others. Licensed under GPLv2.
See source distribution for full notice.

.
So the net result of doing all of this is that referring to the first example, all you would have to do to use the busybox cp command would be the following:

cp <source> <destination>

[lvlln]

im following kevdogs post there but i get invalid cross device link when i get to the install part

Same problem here. I can install busybox fine in /data/busybox, but not in /system/xbin.

[tdawg5480]

im following kevdogs post there but i get invalid cross device link when i get to the install part

Same problem here. I can install busybox fine in /data/busybox, but not in /system/xbin.

follow this Complete How-To Root, Busybox, Flash/Recovery, Framework-res.apk, custom boot ani... busybox works without a glitch seems to me im a newb and from reading theres diff ways to install apps and this works great if u need latest binary ver 1.15.3 lemme know i tried busybox sie and i get tarball files dunno how to install them dont wanna try as method of busybox i had was a single file and not a zip.tar.gz thing

[mikedageek]

Here's a tutorial on how to set variables ... you can leave busybox installed where you want just add the dir to your path ...

Environment Variables - Linux Commands