How To Install vboot-utils on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vboot-utils
on Debian 11.
What is vboot-utils
vboot-utils is:
This package contains a set of tools to deal with Chromebook internals, and the verified version of u-boot. Namely: bmpblk_font bmpblk_utility chromeos-tpm-recovery crossystem dev_debug_vboot dev_make_keypair dumpRSAPublicKey eficompress efidecompress enable_dev_usb_boot load_kernel_test pad_digest_utility signature_digest_utility tpm-nvsize tpm_init_temp_fix tpmc vbutil_what_key verify_data.
The programs previously included in this package: dump_fmap dump_kernel_config futility gbb_utility vbutil_firmware vbutil_key vbutil_keyblock, are now grouped in the futility program in the package vboot-kernel-utils.
Most users don’t need this package, and should look for the cgpt and vboot-kernel-utils packages instead.
There are three methods to install vboot-utils
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vboot-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vboot-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vboot-utils
Install vboot-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vboot-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vboot-utils
Install vboot-utils 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 vboot-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vboot-utils
How To Uninstall vboot-utils on Debian 11
To uninstall only the vboot-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vboot-utils
Uninstall vboot-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vboot-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vboot-utils
Remove vboot-utils Configurations and Data
To remove vboot-utils
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vboot-utils
Remove vboot-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vboot-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vboot-utils
Dependencies
vboot-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vboot-utils
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.