Source: busybox Priority: optional Maintainer: Erik Andersen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 2.1.18), dpkg-dev (1.7.0) Standards-Version: 3.2.1.0 Package: busybox Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Conflicts: Replaces: Section: utils Description: Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e. ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. . This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks for any of the supported utilities. You can use /bin/busybox --install to install BusyBox to the current directory (you do not want to do this in / on your Debian system!). Package: busybox-static Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Section: shells Description: Provides a stand alone rescue shell with tons of builtin utilities. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e. ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. . BusyBox-static provides you with a statically linked simple stand alone shell that provides all the utilities available in BusyBox. This package is intended to be used as a rescue shell, in the event that you screw up your system. Invoke "busybox sh" and you have a standalone shell ready to save your system from certain destruction. Invoke "busybox", and it will list the available builtin commands. Package: busybox-udeb Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Section: debian-installer Description: Tiny utilities for the debian-installer and for embedded systems. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e. ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. . BusyBox is used by the debian-installer. Installing BusyBox onto your Debian system is not recommended, unless you are intended to make a very small embedded system. Chances are good that for embedded systems, you will want to recompile to only include the tools and utilities you wish to include.