How To Install qemu-system-arm on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

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

What is `qemu-system-arm`

qemu-system-arm is:

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports ARM 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 arm hardware: aarch64 arm.

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-arm on Ubuntu. 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-arm 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-arm using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install qemu-system-arm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-arm

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

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-arm

How To Uninstall qemu-system-arm on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-arm

Uninstall qemu-system-arm And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove qemu-system-arm Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

qemu-system-arm have the following dependencies:

References

qemu-system-arm website

Summary

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