How To Install crossbuild-essential-powerpc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-powerpc on Ubuntu 18.04. crossbuild-essential-powerpc is Informational list of cross-build-essential packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-powerpc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is crossbuild-essential-powerpc

crossbuild-essential-powerpc 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-powerpc 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 crossbuild-essential-powerpc 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-powerpc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install crossbuild-essential-powerpc

Install crossbuild-essential-powerpc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install crossbuild-essential-powerpc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install crossbuild-essential-powerpc

Install crossbuild-essential-powerpc 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-powerpc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crossbuild-essential-powerpc

How To Uninstall crossbuild-essential-powerpc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the crossbuild-essential-powerpc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crossbuild-essential-powerpc

Uninstall crossbuild-essential-powerpc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall crossbuild-essential-powerpc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossbuild-essential-powerpc

Remove crossbuild-essential-powerpc Configurations and Data

To remove crossbuild-essential-powerpc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crossbuild-essential-powerpc

Remove crossbuild-essential-powerpc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove crossbuild-essential-powerpc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossbuild-essential-powerpc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossbuild-essential-powerpc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.