How To Install crossbuild-essential-i386 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-i386 on Kali Linux.

What is crossbuild-essential-i386

crossbuild-essential-i386 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-i386 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-i386 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-i386 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install crossbuild-essential-i386

Install crossbuild-essential-i386 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-i386 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install crossbuild-essential-i386

Install crossbuild-essential-i386 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-i386 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-i386

How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-i386 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the crossbuild-essential-i386 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crossbuild-essential-i386

Uninstall crossbuild-essential-i386 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall crossbuild-essential-i386 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossbuild-essential-i386

Remove crossbuild-essential-i386 Configurations and Data

To remove crossbuild-essential-i386 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crossbuild-essential-i386

Remove crossbuild-essential-i386 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove crossbuild-essential-i386 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossbuild-essential-i386

Dependencies

crossbuild-essential-i386 have the following dependencies:

• gcc-i686-linux-gnu

References

• crossbuild-essential-i386 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-i386 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.