How To Install grub-ieee1275 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-ieee1275 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-ieee1275
grub-ieee1275 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 Open Firmware implementations. Installing this package indicates that this version of GRUB should be the active boot loader.
Package: grub-ieee1275 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-ieee1275-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), ucf Conflicts: grub (« 0.97-54), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub-xen Replaces: grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub2 (« 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-ieee1275_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 46600 MD5sum: bdf54a82a148a6d4d180cb0e1a32db3e SHA1: 333400cfc09c30e23b7b6be7b58ce306fe223844 SHA256: ca47bbd7863687f829315dcd19d92fd1857b2f9daa9ae051e63c58dbffece11e Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Open Firmware 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 Open Firmware implementations. Installing this package indicates that this version of GRUB should be the active boot loader.
There are three methods to install grub-ieee1275 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-ieee1275 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-ieee1275 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-ieee1275
Install grub-ieee1275 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-ieee1275 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-ieee1275
Install grub-ieee1275 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-ieee1275 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-ieee1275
How To Uninstall grub-ieee1275 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-ieee1275 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-ieee1275
Uninstall grub-ieee1275 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-ieee1275 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-ieee1275
Remove grub-ieee1275 Configurations and Data
To remove grub-ieee1275 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-ieee1275
Remove grub-ieee1275 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-ieee1275 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-ieee1275
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-ieee1275 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
