How To Install dell-recovery-bootloader on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dell-recovery-bootloader
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dell-recovery-bootloader
dell-recovery-bootloader is:
This package is used to generate GRUB2 configuration that is used in the Dell Linux factory installation process.
This package doesn’t have much use outside of the Dell environment but is safe to install on other systems.
There are three methods to install dell-recovery-bootloader
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 dell-recovery-bootloader Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dell-recovery-bootloader
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dell-recovery-bootloader
Install dell-recovery-bootloader Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dell-recovery-bootloader
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dell-recovery-bootloader
Install dell-recovery-bootloader 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 dell-recovery-bootloader
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dell-recovery-bootloader
How To Uninstall dell-recovery-bootloader on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dell-recovery-bootloader
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dell-recovery-bootloader
Uninstall dell-recovery-bootloader And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dell-recovery-bootloader
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dell-recovery-bootloader
Remove dell-recovery-bootloader Configurations and Data
To remove dell-recovery-bootloader
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dell-recovery-bootloader
Remove dell-recovery-bootloader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dell-recovery-bootloader
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dell-recovery-bootloader
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dell-recovery-bootloader
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.