Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gxemul on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gxemul
gxemul is:
GXemul aims at emulating complete machines with enough hardware
emulated to run real unmodified operating systems. The emulation of
these machine types is good enough to run a least one guest operating
system:
ARM-based machines:
- CATS (NetBSD/cats, OpenBSD/cats, Debian GNU/Linux)
- IQ80321 (NetBSD/evbarm)
- NetWinder (NetBSD/netwinder)
- Raspberry Pi (NetBSD/raspberrypi, FreeBSD, HelenOS/rpi)
MIPS-based machines: - Acer Pica-61 (NetBSD/arc, Windows NT)
- Algorithmics P5064 (NetBSD/algor)
- Cobalt (NetBSD/cobalt)
- DECstation 5000/200 (NetBSD/pmax, OpenBSD/pmax, Ultrix,
Linux/DECstation, Sprite), DECstation 5000/1xx (raw PROM) - Malta (NetBSD/evbmips, Linux/Malta)
- NEC MobilePro 770, 780, 800, 880 (NetBSD/hpcmips)
- PlayStation 2 (NetBSD/playstation2)
- SGI O2 (NetBSD/sgimips, OpenBSD/sgi, Linux, IRIX, raw PROM)
- VoCore (FreeBSD/vocore, Linux/vocore)
Motorola 88K-based machines: - Luna 88K (OpenBSD/luna88k)
- Motorola MVME187 (OpenBSD/mvme88k)
PowerPC-based machines: - Artesyn PM/PPC (NetBSD/pmppc)
- IBM 6050/6070 (PReP, PowerPC Reference Platform) (NetBSD/prep)
- MacPPC (NetBSD/macppc, HelenOS/ppc)
SuperH-based machines: - Landisk I-O DATA USL-5P (NetBSD/landisk, OpenBSD/landisk)
- Sega Dreamcast (NetBSD/dreamcast, Linux/dreamcast)
Other machine types and architectures are emulated less completely.
See the documentation in the gxemul-doc package for the exact details
and guides to installing guest operating systems.
There are three methods to install gxemul 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 gxemul Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gxemul using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gxemul
Install gxemul Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gxemul using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gxemul
Install gxemul 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 gxemul using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gxemul
How To Uninstall gxemul on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gxemul package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gxemul
Uninstall gxemul And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gxemul and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gxemul
Remove gxemul Configurations and Data
To remove gxemul configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gxemul
Remove gxemul configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gxemul configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gxemul
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gxemul package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
