How To Install grub-efi-amd64-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-efi-amd64-dbg
grub-efi-amd64-dbg is:
This package contains debugging files for grub-efi-amd64-bin. You only need these if you are trying to debug GRUB using its GDB stub.
Package: grub-efi-amd64-dbg Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.04-1ubuntu26 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: debug Source: grub2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 22683 Depends: grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-amd64-dbg_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 3786256 MD5sum: 7b3679ab210ed3a2ede1b5cbbd15b829 SHA1: 7125afd50ef953af78844f1065f3e9f8f18c3dc0 SHA256: 905b1b8ab7334446327d1d671c3fc8f3703d4059d6ed0ee46043d358612033dc Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-AMD64 debug files) This package contains debugging files for grub-efi-amd64-bin. You only need these if you are trying to debug GRUB using its GDB stub.
There are three methods to install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
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 grub-efi-amd64-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
Install grub-efi-amd64-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
Install grub-efi-amd64-dbg 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 grub-efi-amd64-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
How To Uninstall grub-efi-amd64-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-efi-amd64-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64-dbg
Uninstall grub-efi-amd64-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-efi-amd64-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-efi-amd64-dbg
Remove grub-efi-amd64-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove grub-efi-amd64-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-amd64-dbg
Remove grub-efi-amd64-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-amd64-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-amd64-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64-dbg
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.