How To Install grub-linuxbios on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-linuxbios on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-linuxbios
grub-linuxbios is:
This is a dummy transitional package that depends on grub-coreboot.
Package: grub-linuxbios Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.04-1ubuntu26 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/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: 16 Depends: grub-coreboot (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/universe/g/grub2/grub-linuxbios_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 2580 MD5sum: 4848534bb21476eca206712711c28acb SHA1: 4ae03049f593ff291294aa166bb5a51d33b0b8f1 SHA256: fb914b81a3b36a051ecf91578bc00db29ca4409fb100793d0410296057af8fa3 Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package) This is a dummy transitional package that depends on grub-coreboot.
There are three methods to install grub-linuxbios 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-linuxbios 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-linuxbios using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-linuxbios
Install grub-linuxbios Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-linuxbios using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-linuxbios
Install grub-linuxbios 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-linuxbios using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-linuxbios
How To Uninstall grub-linuxbios on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-linuxbios package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-linuxbios
Uninstall grub-linuxbios And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-linuxbios and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-linuxbios
Remove grub-linuxbios Configurations and Data
To remove grub-linuxbios configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-linuxbios
Remove grub-linuxbios configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-linuxbios configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-linuxbios
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-linuxbios package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
