How To Install crossbuild-essential-riscv64 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-riscv64 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is crossbuild-essential-riscv64
crossbuild-essential-riscv64 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-riscv64 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-riscv64 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-riscv64 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crossbuild-essential-riscv64
Install crossbuild-essential-riscv64 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-riscv64 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crossbuild-essential-riscv64
Install crossbuild-essential-riscv64 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-riscv64 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-riscv64
How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-riscv64 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the crossbuild-essential-riscv64 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crossbuild-essential-riscv64
Uninstall crossbuild-essential-riscv64 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crossbuild-essential-riscv64 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-riscv64
Remove crossbuild-essential-riscv64 Configurations and Data
To remove crossbuild-essential-riscv64 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crossbuild-essential-riscv64
Remove crossbuild-essential-riscv64 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crossbuild-essential-riscv64 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossbuild-essential-riscv64
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-riscv64 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
