How To Install grub-efi-ia32-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32-bin
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-efi-ia32-bin
grub-efi-ia32-bin 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 GRUB modules that have been built for use with the EFI-IA32 architecture, as used by Intel Macs (unless a BIOS interface has been activated). It can be installed in parallel with other flavours, but will not automatically install GRUB as the active boot loader nor automatically update grub.cfg on upgrade unless grub-efi-ia32 is also installed. Efi-Vendor: ubuntu
Package: grub-efi-ia32-bin Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.04-1ubuntu26 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: admin Source: grub2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 5323 Depends: grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26) Recommends: grub-efi-ia32-signed, efibootmgr Replaces: grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-efi, grub-efi-ia32 (« 1.99-1), grub2 (« 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-ia32-bin_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 661976 MD5sum: cc07687f499b0445e01303981675c95f SHA1: f726fafcea056df33725a363549a76976d5ff54a SHA256: 4db2e0870b89fef902bf367ff5089cb2fbba71f98b03e6b2b297af35beab24ef Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 modules) 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 GRUB modules that have been built for use with the EFI-IA32 architecture, as used by Intel Macs (unless a BIOS interface has been activated). It can be installed in parallel with other flavours, but will not automatically install GRUB as the active boot loader nor automatically update grub.cfg on upgrade unless grub-efi-ia32 is also installed. Efi-Vendor: ubuntu
There are three methods to install grub-efi-ia32-bin
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-ia32-bin 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-ia32-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-efi-ia32-bin
Install grub-efi-ia32-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-efi-ia32-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-efi-ia32-bin
Install grub-efi-ia32-bin 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-ia32-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-efi-ia32-bin
How To Uninstall grub-efi-ia32-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-efi-ia32-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-ia32-bin
Uninstall grub-efi-ia32-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-efi-ia32-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-efi-ia32-bin
Remove grub-efi-ia32-bin Configurations and Data
To remove grub-efi-ia32-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-efi-ia32-bin
Remove grub-efi-ia32-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-efi-ia32-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-efi-ia32-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-efi-ia32-bin
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.