How To Install skyeye on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skyeye on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is skyeye
skyeye is:
The goal of SkyEye is to provide an integrated simulation environment in Linux and Windows. SkyEye environment simulates typical Embedded Computer Systems (Now it supports a series ARM architecture based microprocessors and Blackfin DSP Processor). You can run some Embedded Operation System such as ARM Linux, uClinux, uc/OS-II (ucos-ii) etc. in SkyEye, and analyse or debug them at source level. Now the following hardwares can be simulated by SkyEye:
- CPU core: ARM7TDMI, ARM720T, StrongARM, XScale, Blackfin.
- Application CPU: Atmel AT91X40/AT91RM9200, Cirrus Logic EP7312/EP9312/CS89712, Intel SA1100/SA1110, Intel PXA 25x/27x, Samsung 4510B/44B0/2410/2440 , Sharp LH7xxxx, NS9750, Philips LPC22xx, BF533.
- Memory: RAM, ROM, Flash.
- Peripheral: Timer, UART, NIC chip, LCD, TouchScreen, etc.
There are three methods to install skyeye on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install skyeye Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install skyeye using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skyeye
Install skyeye Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skyeye using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skyeye
Install skyeye 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 skyeye using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skyeye
How To Uninstall skyeye on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the skyeye package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skyeye
Uninstall skyeye And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skyeye and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skyeye
Remove skyeye Configurations and Data
To remove skyeye configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skyeye
Remove skyeye configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skyeye configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skyeye
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skyeye package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
