How To Install grub-efi-amd64 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi-amd64 is:
GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader. This version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features:
- Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax.
- Support for modern partition maps such as GPT.
- Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub. Packages providing GRUB add-ons can plug in their own script rules and trigger updates by invoking update-grub.
This is a dependency package for a version of GRUB that has been built for use with the EFI-AMD64 architecture, as used by Intel Macs (unless a BIOS interface has been activated). Installing this package indicates that this version of GRUB should be the active boot loader.
There are three methods to install grub-efi-amd64
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 grub-efi-amd64 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-amd64
Install grub-efi-amd64 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-amd64
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-efi-amd64
Install grub-efi-amd64 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-amd64
How To Uninstall grub-efi-amd64 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the grub-efi-amd64
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64
Uninstall grub-efi-amd64 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-efi-amd64
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-efi-amd64
Remove grub-efi-amd64 Configurations and Data
To remove grub-efi-amd64
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-amd64
Remove grub-efi-amd64 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-amd64
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-amd64
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.