How To Install grub-xen-host on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-xen-host on Kali Linux.

What is grub-xen-host

grub-xen-host 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 arranges for GRUB binary images which can be used to boot a Xen guest (i.e. PV-GRUB) to be present in the control domain filesystem.

There are three methods to install grub-xen-host on Kali Linux. 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-xen-host 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-xen-host using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install grub-xen-host

Install grub-xen-host Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-xen-host using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grub-xen-host

Install grub-xen-host Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-xen-host using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grub-xen-host

How To Uninstall grub-xen-host on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the grub-xen-host package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove grub-xen-host

Uninstall grub-xen-host And Its Dependencies

To uninstall grub-xen-host and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-xen-host

Remove grub-xen-host Configurations and Data

To remove grub-xen-host configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grub-xen-host

Remove grub-xen-host configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-xen-host

Dependencies

grub-xen-host have the following dependencies:

• grub-xen-bin

References

• grub-xen-host website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-xen-host package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.