How To Install crossbuild-essential-armel on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-armel on Kali Linux.

What is crossbuild-essential-armel

crossbuild-essential-armel 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.

There are three methods to install crossbuild-essential-armel on Kali Linux. 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-armel 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-armel using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install crossbuild-essential-armel

Install crossbuild-essential-armel Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-armel using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install crossbuild-essential-armel

Install crossbuild-essential-armel Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-armel using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-armel

How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-armel on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the crossbuild-essential-armel package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crossbuild-essential-armel

Uninstall crossbuild-essential-armel And Its Dependencies

To uninstall crossbuild-essential-armel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossbuild-essential-armel

Remove crossbuild-essential-armel Configurations and Data

To remove crossbuild-essential-armel configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crossbuild-essential-armel

Remove crossbuild-essential-armel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove crossbuild-essential-armel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossbuild-essential-armel

Dependencies

crossbuild-essential-armel have the following dependencies:

• gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi

References

• crossbuild-essential-armel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-armel package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.