How To Install seabios on Debian 10

Learn how to install seabios on Debian 10 with this tutorial. seabios is Legacy BIOS implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios on Debian 10.

What is seabios

seabios is:

SeaBIOS is a legacy BIOS implementation, aimed at supporting not only emulated hosts such as QEMU, but also real hardware.

Note, however, that SeaBIOS does not handle early initialization of core chipsets, so don’t even think of flashing it to your board (look at Coreboot for that).

There are three methods to install seabios on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install seabios Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install seabios using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install seabios

Install seabios Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install seabios using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install seabios

Install seabios 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install seabios using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install seabios

How To Uninstall seabios on Debian 10

To uninstall only the seabios package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove seabios

Uninstall seabios And Its Dependencies

To uninstall seabios and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove seabios

Remove seabios Configurations and Data

To remove seabios configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge seabios

Remove seabios configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove seabios configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seabios

Dependencies

seabios have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.