diff --git a/packages/termux-tools/build.sh b/packages/termux-tools/build.sh
index 204ef9da9..227c65b0a 100644
--- a/packages/termux-tools/build.sh
+++ b/packages/termux-tools/build.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://termux.com/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Basic system tools for Termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.68
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.69
 TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=yes
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="termux-am, termux-exec"
-TERMUX_PKG_CONFLICTS="procps (<< 3.3.15-2)"
 TERMUX_PKG_ESSENTIAL=yes
 TERMUX_PKG_CONFFILES="etc/motd"
+TERMUX_PKG_CONFLICTS="procps (<< 3.3.15-2)"
+
+# Some of these packages are not dependencies and used only to ensure
+# that core packages are installed after upgrading (we removed busybox
+# from essentials).
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="bzip2, coreutils, curl, dash, diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep, gzip, less, procps, psmisc, sed, tar, termux-am, termux-exec, xz-utils"
+
+# Optional packages that are distributed as part of bootstrap archives.
+TERMUX_PKG_RECOMMENDS="ed, dos2unix, inetutils, net-tools, patch, unzip, util-linux"
 
 termux_step_make_install() {
 	mkdir -p $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/applets