How To Install crossbuild-essential-armhf on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-armhf on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is crossbuild-essential-armhf
crossbuild-essential-armhf is:
If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don’t need this package. Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for cross building Debian packages. This package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this package depends on.
Package: crossbuild-essential-armhf Architecture: all Version: 12.8ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: devel Source: build-essential Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 15 Depends: gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf (>= 4:9.2) | gcc:armhf, g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf (>= 4:9.2) | g++:armhf, dpkg-cross Filename: pool/main/b/build-essential/crossbuild-essential-armhf_12.8ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 3612 MD5sum: c1221058d4ab9f9cefb9276b549d8b79 SHA1: ba987e0c678a6cd1ba7cd04b90fbdfa26cbfacd5 SHA256: 3612515ef47bd37c561e569f83c1e66d2642cedb67ef8fc73d88a93e1c848ecf Description-en: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don’t need this package. Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for cross building Debian packages. This package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this package depends on.
There are three methods to install crossbuild-essential-armhf on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install crossbuild-essential-armhf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-armhf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crossbuild-essential-armhf
Install crossbuild-essential-armhf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-armhf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crossbuild-essential-armhf
Install crossbuild-essential-armhf Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-armhf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-armhf
How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-armhf on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the crossbuild-essential-armhf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crossbuild-essential-armhf
Uninstall crossbuild-essential-armhf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crossbuild-essential-armhf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossbuild-essential-armhf
Remove crossbuild-essential-armhf Configurations and Data
To remove crossbuild-essential-armhf configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crossbuild-essential-armhf
Remove crossbuild-essential-armhf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crossbuild-essential-armhf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossbuild-essential-armhf
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-armhf package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
