How To Install openhackware on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openhackware on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is openhackware
openhackware is:
OpenHackWare is an OpenFirmware emulator intended to be used on PowerPC machines. It is not a real OpenFirmware as it knows nothing about Forth. It emulates the OpenFirmware boot time interface as well as the RTAS interface. It also emulates some known “interpret” strings, to make it able to launch known OSes.
There are three methods to install openhackware on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install openhackware Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openhackware using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openhackware
Install openhackware Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openhackware using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openhackware
Install openhackware 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 openhackware using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openhackware
How To Uninstall openhackware on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the openhackware package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openhackware
Uninstall openhackware And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openhackware and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openhackware
Remove openhackware Configurations and Data
To remove openhackware configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openhackware
Remove openhackware configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openhackware configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openhackware
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openhackware package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
