How To Install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el on Debian 10.
What is crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
crossbuild-essential-ppc64el 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-ppc64el on Debian 10. 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-ppc64el 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-ppc64el using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
Install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
Install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el 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 crossbuild-essential-ppc64el using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-ppc64el on Debian 10
To uninstall only the crossbuild-essential-ppc64el package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
Uninstall crossbuild-essential-ppc64el And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crossbuild-essential-ppc64el and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
Remove crossbuild-essential-ppc64el Configurations and Data
To remove crossbuild-essential-ppc64el configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
Remove crossbuild-essential-ppc64el configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crossbuild-essential-ppc64el configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
Dependencies
crossbuild-essential-ppc64el have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.