How To Install bochsbios on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bochsbios on Ubuntu 22.04. bochsbios is BIOS for the Bochs emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bochsbios on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is bochsbios

bochsbios is:

Bochs is a highly portable free IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS.

This package contains the BIOS of the Bochs project.

There are three methods to install bochsbios on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bochsbios Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bochsbios using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bochsbios

Install bochsbios Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bochsbios using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bochsbios

Install bochsbios 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 bochsbios using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bochsbios

How To Uninstall bochsbios on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the bochsbios package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bochsbios

Uninstall bochsbios And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bochsbios and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bochsbios

Remove bochsbios Configurations and Data

To remove bochsbios configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bochsbios

Remove bochsbios configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bochsbios configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bochsbios

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bochsbios package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.