How To Install efivar on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar
on Debian 10.
What is efivar
efivar is:
efivar provides a simple command line interface to the UEFI variable facility.
There are three methods to install efivar
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 efivar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install efivar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install efivar
Install efivar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install efivar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install efivar
Install efivar 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 efivar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install efivar
How To Uninstall efivar on Debian 10
To uninstall only the efivar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove efivar
Uninstall efivar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall efivar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove efivar
Remove efivar Configurations and Data
To remove efivar
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge efivar
Remove efivar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove efivar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge efivar
Dependencies
efivar have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.