How To Install grub-pc-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-pc-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-pc-dbg
grub-pc-dbg is:
This package contains debugging files for grub-pc-bin. You only need these if you are trying to debug GRUB using its GDB stub.
Package: grub-pc-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: 14469 Depends: grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-pc-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-pc-dbg_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 3392472 MD5sum: 19806c4b0ec5cd5df78dbe494a3c497b SHA1: 54a076eaa4d72edd19575c9620eebbf2ba3b6c6c SHA256: 6bfe49dfd331e04a6bceb63609dd27d03705c515780ea8c74b5dbf28d7acc0c3 Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS debug files) This package contains debugging files for grub-pc-bin. You only need these if you are trying to debug GRUB using its GDB stub.
There are three methods to install grub-pc-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-pc-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-pc-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-pc-dbg
Install grub-pc-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-pc-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-pc-dbg
Install grub-pc-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-pc-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-pc-dbg
How To Uninstall grub-pc-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-pc-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-pc-dbg
Uninstall grub-pc-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-pc-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-pc-dbg
Remove grub-pc-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove grub-pc-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-pc-dbg
Remove grub-pc-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-pc-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-pc-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-pc-dbg package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
