How To Install qemu-system-mips 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-mips on Ubuntu.

What is `qemu-system-mips`

qemu-system-mips is:

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports MIPS 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 mips hardware: mips mipsel mips64 mips64el.

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-mips 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-mips 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-mips using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install qemu-system-mips Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-mips

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

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-mips

How To Uninstall qemu-system-mips on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-mips

Uninstall qemu-system-mips And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove qemu-system-mips Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

qemu-system-mips have the following dependencies:

References

qemu-system-mips website

Summary

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