How To Install qemu-system-ppc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-ppc on Ubuntu 20.04. qemu-system-ppc is QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc) QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-ppc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is qemu-system-ppc

qemu-system-ppc is:

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports PowerPC emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.

This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following PowerPC hardware: ppc ppc64.

In system emulation mode QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual machines on a single server.

Package: qemu-system-ppc Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: misc 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: 33202 Provides: qemu-system-ppc64 Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbrlapi0.7, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcacard0 (>= 2.2), libepoxy0 (>= 1.3), libfdt1 (>= 1.5.1), libgbm1 (>= 7.11~1), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.12), libibverbs1 (>= 28), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libnettle7, libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), libpmem1 (>= 1.4), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), librdmacm1 (>= 1.0.15), libsasl2-2 (>= 2.1.27+dfsg), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), libslirp0 (>= 4.0.0), libspice-server1 (>= 0.14.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.22), libusbredirparser1 (>= 0.6), libvirglrenderer1 (>= 0.8.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), qemu-system-common (» 1:2.12~), qemu-system-data (» 1:4.2-3ubuntu6~), qemu-slof Recommends: qemu-system-gui (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), qemu-utils, ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms, seabios, ipxe-qemu (>= 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-1~) Suggests: samba, vde2, qemu-block-extra (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), openbios-ppc (>= 1.1+svn1229), openhackware Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-system-ppc_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 6867840 MD5sum: 5f6115840c2f64bf40f999f77d6324e5 SHA1: 7b264c50bad3a01bbc660c349320a0d6f58fe797 SHA256: c8612ed08f77050d66ae81feee3bba328c06b392cc5a752dedaa9fb7c487fe04 Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc) QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports PowerPC emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.

This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following PowerPC hardware: ppc ppc64.

In system emulation mode QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual machines on a single server.

There are three methods to install qemu-system-ppc 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-system-ppc 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-system-ppc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-ppc

Install qemu-system-ppc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-ppc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-ppc

Install qemu-system-ppc 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-system-ppc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-ppc

How To Uninstall qemu-system-ppc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the qemu-system-ppc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-ppc

Uninstall qemu-system-ppc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qemu-system-ppc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-system-ppc

Remove qemu-system-ppc Configurations and Data

To remove qemu-system-ppc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-ppc

Remove qemu-system-ppc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-ppc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-ppc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-ppc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.