How To Install bochs on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bochs on Debian 12.
What is bochs
bochs is:
Bochs is a highly portable free IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS.
Bochs is capable of running most operating systems inside the emulation including GNU, GNU/Linux, *BSD, FreeDOS, MSDOS and Windows 95/NT.
There are three methods to install bochs on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bochs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bochs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bochs
Install bochs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bochs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bochs
Install bochs 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bochs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bochs
How To Uninstall bochs on Debian 12
To uninstall only the bochs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bochs
Uninstall bochs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bochs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bochs
Remove bochs Configurations and Data
To remove bochs configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bochs
Remove bochs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bochs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bochs
Dependencies
bochs have the following dependencies:
- bochs-wx
- bochsbios
- vgabios
- libasound2
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libltdl7
- libpango-1.0-0
- libreadline8
- libsamplerate0
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bochs package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.