How To Install gnu-efi on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-efi
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gnu-efi
gnu-efi is:
GNU toolchain for building applications that can run in the environment presented by Intel’s EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface). EFI is a firmware specification for the “BIOS” on ia64(IPF), IA-32(x86) and x86_64 systems.
There are three methods to install gnu-efi
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnu-efi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnu-efi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnu-efi
Install gnu-efi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnu-efi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnu-efi
Install gnu-efi 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 gnu-efi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnu-efi
How To Uninstall gnu-efi on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gnu-efi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnu-efi
Uninstall gnu-efi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnu-efi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnu-efi
Remove gnu-efi Configurations and Data
To remove gnu-efi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnu-efi
Remove gnu-efi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnu-efi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnu-efi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-efi
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.