How To Install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el on Ubuntu 22.04. crossbuild-essential-ppc64el is Informational list of cross-build-essential packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el on Ubuntu 22.04.

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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04

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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-ppc64el package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.