At Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:40:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 14:20:07 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > On my Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian 12 (Debian 12), busybox-static is
> > shipped
> > because it is used by the init ramdisk build script. It is included as the
> > "shell" in the init ramdisk. There are actually two busybox packages:
> >
> > marchhare% dpkg-query -l busybox\*|cat
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > |
> > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase?d)
> > ||/ Name Version Architecture Description
> > +++-==============-=====================-============-=====================================================un
> > busybox <none> <none> (no description
> > available)
> > ii busybox-static 1:1.35.0-4+deb12u1+b1 arm64 Standalone rescue
> > shell with tons of builtin utilities
>
> And my non-Raspberry Trixie system has the exact opposite:
>
> ii busybox 1:1.37.0-6+b9 amd64 [...]
> un busybox-static <none> <none>
>
Hmm, Only one busybox can be installed at a time:
marchhare% apt -s install busybox
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
busybox-static
The following NEW packages will be installed:
busybox
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Remv busybox-static [1:1.35.0-4+deb12u1+b1]
Inst busybox (1:1.35.0-4+deb12u1+b1 Debian:12.15/oldstable [arm64])
Conf busybox (1:1.35.0-4+deb12u1+b1 Debian:12.15/oldstable [arm64])
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