How To Install opensbi on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opensbi
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is opensbi
opensbi is:
An open-source reference implementation of the RISC-V SBI specifications for platform-specific firmwares executing in M-mode.
The following firmware platforms are provided: generic sifive/fu540
Package: opensbi Architecture: all Version: 0.6-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Vagrant Cascadian [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 277 Filename: pool/universe/o/opensbi/opensbi_0.6-1_all.deb Size: 50556 MD5sum: 9b0813621abde740ddcd5d3c18d31683 SHA1: f0476f9a90e284a57a4611433d249d93958afd31 SHA256: 3e1e1c0f9b6ad9a2685a62e2e425329fabd880704f6a229ed898f5c361a2019b Homepage: https://github.com/riscv/opensbi Description-en: RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface An open-source reference implementation of the RISC-V SBI specifications for platform-specific firmwares executing in M-mode.
The following firmware platforms are provided: qemu/virt sifive/fu540
There are three methods to install opensbi
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 opensbi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opensbi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opensbi
Install opensbi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opensbi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opensbi
Install opensbi 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 opensbi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opensbi
How To Uninstall opensbi on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the opensbi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opensbi
Uninstall opensbi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opensbi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opensbi
Remove opensbi Configurations and Data
To remove opensbi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opensbi
Remove opensbi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opensbi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opensbi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opensbi
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.