Thread: BASH on N800
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I compiled bash 3.2 under scratchbox and copied the binary over, works fine. should be in /bin/bash, the reason you see a conflict with installing it is (I presume) busybox claims to provide it. if you look through the instructions for booting off the sd/mmc card, part of the procedure is to unpack a .deb file and extract a tar binary and copy it over (to /usr/local) to replace the busybox supplied tar. I expect you could use the same procedure to extract bash from the .deb package you mentioned. btw, don't set the user .profile to start up /bin/bash (think that's what I did, else it was setting user shell to /bin/bash -- meant to post on it but don't see it now), it will hang during boot and you will have to re-flash setting root's shell to /bin/bash seems ok so far tho.

rob.