How To Install grub-efi-ia32 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32 on Ubuntu 20.04.
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.
Package: grub-efi-ia32 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.04-1ubuntu26 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: admin Source: grub2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 178 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub2-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-efi-ia32-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), ucf Conflicts: elilo, grub (« 0.97-54), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub-xen Replaces: grub, grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot, grub-efi, grub-efi-amd64, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub2 (« 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-ia32_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 46652 MD5sum: f92a8f8cc39fcac57b89521934a4604d SHA1: ecd1cc5dfaf42b989f93395941791309050f9cc2 SHA256: 3668a9416790f98788499e44a6362feb5568f86e1cd30bfbc35f2ccf90e77e65 Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 version) 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 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-ia32
Install grub-efi-ia32 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-ia32 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-efi-ia32
Install grub-efi-ia32 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-ia32
How To Uninstall grub-efi-ia32 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-efi-ia32 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-ia32
Uninstall grub-efi-ia32 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-efi-ia32 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
Remove grub-efi-ia32 Configurations and Data
To remove grub-efi-ia32 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-ia32
Remove 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-ia32
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
