How To Install crossbuild-essential-armel on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-armel
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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.
Package: crossbuild-essential-armel Architecture: all Version: 12.8ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/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-gnueabi (>= 4:9.2) | gcc:armel, g++-arm-linux-gnueabi (>= 4:9.2) | g++:armel, dpkg-cross Filename: pool/universe/b/build-essential/crossbuild-essential-armel_12.8ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 3608 MD5sum: 6c6e5e3f56d7e237d05a1f40e106837f SHA1: fb163e0e4f1f5e9590907eec53f96af420a4c49e SHA256: 32dd0399ec6f8f45c28c834464307f5127891bd8fe1d0d3682f2799a946bd1a4 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-armel
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-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 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-armel
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-armel
How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-armel on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-armel
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.