How To Install qemu-user-static on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user-static
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-user-static
qemu-user-static is:
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4, SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
This package provides the user mode emulation binaries, built statically. In this mode QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.
qemu-user-static package will register binary formats which the provided emulators can handle, so that it will be possible to run foreign binaries directly.
Package: qemu-user-static Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6 Built-Using: gcc-10 (= 10-20200411-0ubuntu1), glib2.0 (= 2.64.2-1~fakesync1), glibc (= 2.31-0ubuntu9), gnutls28 (= 3.6.13-2ubuntu1), zlib (= 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1) Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/otherosfs Source: qemu Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 202865 Provides: qemu-user-binfmt Recommends: binfmt-support Suggests: sudo Conflicts: qemu-user-binfmt Breaks: binfmt-support (« 2.1.7~) Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-user-static_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 21213144 MD5sum: a740e01f9a18ee72e0e0cb0ee8dcc1dd SHA1: fd8c500455818ed14845837fc586383e69820481 SHA256: c41f8cdfa14bcda67b498f64cc1cd4cf475d99314653591bfab2718f99fea0a1 Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: QEMU user mode emulation binaries (static version) QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4, SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
This package provides the user mode emulation binaries, built statically. In this mode QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.
qemu-user-static package will register binary formats which the provided emulators can handle, so that it will be possible to run foreign binaries directly.
There are three methods to install qemu-user-static
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install qemu-user-static Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user-static
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-user-static
Install qemu-user-static Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user-static
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-user-static
Install qemu-user-static 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 qemu-user-static
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-user-static
How To Uninstall qemu-user-static on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-user-static
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-user-static
Uninstall qemu-user-static And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-user-static
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-user-static
Remove qemu-user-static Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-user-static
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-user-static
Remove qemu-user-static configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-user-static
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-user-static
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user-static
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.