How To Install grub-efi-ia32 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32 on Kali Linux.
What is grub-efi-ia32
grub-efi-ia32 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-IA32 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-ia32 on Kali Linux. 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-ia32 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-ia32Install grub-efi-ia32 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-ia32 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-efi-ia32Install grub-efi-ia32 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-ia32 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-ia32How To Uninstall grub-efi-ia32 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the grub-efi-ia32 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-ia32Uninstall grub-efi-ia32 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-efi-ia32 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-efi-ia32Remove grub-efi-ia32 Configurations and Data
To remove grub-efi-ia32 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-ia32Remove grub-efi-ia32 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-ia32 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-ia32Dependencies
grub-efi-ia32 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
