How To Install u-boot-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install u-boot-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is u-boot-tools
u-boot-tools is:
This package includes programs for generating and listing U-Boot images in various formats:
- mkimage
- dumpimage
- mksunxiboot
- mkenvimage
Package: u-boot-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 2019.07+dfsg-1ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: admin Source: u-boot Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Vagrant Cascadian [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 705 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1), binutils Recommends: device-tree-compiler Breaks: u-boot (« 2010.12-2), uboot-envtools (« 20081215-3~), uboot-mkimage (<= 0.4build1) Replaces: u-boot (« 2010.12-2), uboot-envtools (« 20081215-3~), uboot-mkimage (<= 0.4build1) Filename: pool/main/u/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2019.07+dfsg-1ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 166840 MD5sum: 99b4f72858cb83ec22b0b9fa8b18f2eb SHA1: ba22c9d27bd1001dfe95dc83106e505286651a6c SHA256: b732d3f1ebc3d7f1f7bf8b9cc2d7d6a7a8c23e49d14d248d2ed956b610a5e803 Homepage: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ Description-en: companion tools for Das U-Boot bootloader This package includes the mkimage program, which allows generation of U-Boot images in various formats, and the fw_printenv and fw_setenv programs to read and modify U-Boot’s environment.
There are three methods to install u-boot-tools
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 u-boot-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install u-boot-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install u-boot-tools
Install u-boot-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install u-boot-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install u-boot-tools
Install u-boot-tools 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 u-boot-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install u-boot-tools
How To Uninstall u-boot-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the u-boot-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove u-boot-tools
Uninstall u-boot-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall u-boot-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove u-boot-tools
Remove u-boot-tools Configurations and Data
To remove u-boot-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge u-boot-tools
Remove u-boot-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove u-boot-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge u-boot-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install u-boot-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.