How To Install grub-efi-amd64-signed on Debian 12

Learn how to install grub-efi-amd64-signed on Debian 12 with this tutorial. grub-efi-amd64-signed is GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (amd64 UEFI signed by Debian)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64-signed on Debian 12.

What is grub-efi-amd64-signed

grub-efi-amd64-signed is:

GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader. This version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features:

  • Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax.
  • Support for modern partition maps such as GPT.
  • Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub. Packages providing GRUB add-ons can plug in their own script rules and trigger updates by invoking update-grub.

This package contains the binaries signed by the Debian UEFI CA to be used by shim-signed.

There are three methods to install grub-efi-amd64-signed on Debian 12. 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-efi-amd64-signed 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-efi-amd64-signed using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-amd64-signed

Install grub-efi-amd64-signed Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-amd64-signed using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grub-efi-amd64-signed

Install grub-efi-amd64-signed 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 grub-efi-amd64-signed using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-amd64-signed

How To Uninstall grub-efi-amd64-signed on Debian 12

To uninstall only the grub-efi-amd64-signed package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64-signed

Uninstall grub-efi-amd64-signed And Its Dependencies

To uninstall grub-efi-amd64-signed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-efi-amd64-signed

Remove grub-efi-amd64-signed Configurations and Data

To remove grub-efi-amd64-signed configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-amd64-signed

Remove grub-efi-amd64-signed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-amd64-signed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-amd64-signed

Dependencies

grub-efi-amd64-signed have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64-signed package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.