How To Install qemu-system-sparc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-sparc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-system-sparc
qemu-system-sparc is:
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports SPARC 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 sparc hardware: sparc sparc64.
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-sparc 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: 22886 Provides: qemu-system-sparc64 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 (>= 1.1.6), 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~) Recommends: qemu-system-gui (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), qemu-utils, seabios, ipxe-qemu (>= 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-1~) Suggests: samba, vde2, qemu-block-extra (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), openbios-sparc (» 1.1+svn1395-1~) Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-system-sparc_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 5092208 MD5sum: b1f249b4e4bffe9381f8f603c6ff796f SHA1: 3c0dfecdd32cd50942012e8ea0d4f6e5d8109202 SHA256: 0ab644b2cf77e6e2547e92c1cd34e7ed60a71e6abb1558032899634856488358 Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: QEMU full system emulation binaries (sparc) QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports SPARC 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 sparc hardware: sparc sparc64.
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-sparc 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-sparc 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-sparc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-sparc
Install qemu-system-sparc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-sparc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-system-sparc
Install qemu-system-sparc 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-sparc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-sparc
How To Uninstall qemu-system-sparc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-system-sparc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-sparc
Uninstall qemu-system-sparc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-system-sparc 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-sparc
Remove qemu-system-sparc Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-system-sparc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-sparc
Remove qemu-system-sparc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-sparc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-sparc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-sparc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
