How To Install grub-efi-ia32-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04. grub-efi-ia32-dbg is GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 debug files) GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 debug files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is grub-efi-ia32-dbg

grub-efi-ia32-dbg is:

This package contains debugging files for grub-efi-ia32-bin. You only need these if you are trying to debug GRUB using its GDB stub.

Package: grub-efi-ia32-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: 14541 Depends: grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-efi-ia32-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-ia32-dbg_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 3405820 MD5sum: a47272936f5149e375f32b452d4973be SHA1: e21ba96078bca495e29d4b0438c6952096a89348 SHA256: 200094ad93a1d944afc944359d20b5537a325718de20f8ecb4fa7e240753e2ce Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 debug files) This package contains debugging files for grub-efi-ia32-bin. You only need these if you are trying to debug GRUB using its GDB stub.

There are three methods to install grub-efi-ia32-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-ia32-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-ia32-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-ia32-dbg

Install grub-efi-ia32-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-ia32-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grub-efi-ia32-dbg

Install grub-efi-ia32-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-ia32-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-ia32-dbg

How To Uninstall grub-efi-ia32-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the grub-efi-ia32-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-ia32-dbg

Uninstall grub-efi-ia32-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall grub-efi-ia32-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-ia32-dbg

Remove grub-efi-ia32-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove grub-efi-ia32-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-ia32-dbg

Remove grub-efi-ia32-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-ia32-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-ia32-dbg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32-dbg package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.