he somehow missed the group box out, so i've sent it on.
however, from this he doesn't seem to understand android is only one of it's operating systems, and was a later addition, not it's sole reason for existing.
scsijon -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Toybox] Toybox Installer/setup routine? Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 20:07:26 -0400 From: dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> To: scsijon <scsi...@lamiaworks.com.au> On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:22 PM scsijon <scsi...@lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
This may be a can of worms or off-topic but... I was wondering if Toybox should/could have an inbuilt installer/setup routine of some sort and how are others handling this retro-fit problem!
That sounds like a *huge* can of worms. My question, given that Android is the principal target for Toybox, is how Android users get/install it. As it stands, it looks like you need a rooted device to be *able* to install/use it, and successive Android releases have locked it progressively down and good luck *getting* root on your device. (One of my devices runs Marshmallow, and I haven't found a rooting solution that works. My other devices run and KitKat Lollipop and I *can* root them. (The last device I bought of eBay I carefully selected a model with Lollipop instead of Marshmallow so I *could* root the thing.) I'm conversant enough with Linux that I *could* replace Busybox with Toybox - it's a matter of dropping the toybox binary into a system directory in the $PATH and creating symlinks - but you need to be root and know how to do that. If you aren't and don't, you probably shouldn't be trying to install/use toybox in the first place.
scsijon
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