How To Install grub-efi-amd64 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi-amd64 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 is a dependency package for a version of GRUB that has been built for use with the EFI-AMD64 architecture, as used by Intel Macs (unless a BIOS interface has been activated). Installing this package indicates that this version of GRUB should be the active boot loader.
There are three methods to install grub-efi-amd64 on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-efi-amd64 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-amd64
Install grub-efi-amd64 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-amd64 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-efi-amd64
Install grub-efi-amd64 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-efi-amd64 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-amd64
How To Uninstall grub-efi-amd64 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the grub-efi-amd64 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64
Uninstall grub-efi-amd64 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-efi-amd64 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-efi-amd64
Remove grub-efi-amd64 Configurations and Data
To remove grub-efi-amd64 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-amd64
Remove grub-efi-amd64 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-amd64 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-amd64
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-amd64 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
