How To Install qemu-efi on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-efi on Ubuntu 20.04. qemu-efi is transitional dummy package transitional dummy package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-efi on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is qemu-efi

qemu-efi is:

This is a transitional dummy package. It contains a compatibility symlink of /usr/share/qemu-efi/QEMU_EFI.fd to /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd.

Package: qemu-efi Architecture: all Version: 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3 Priority: extra Section: universe/misc Source: edk2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 39 Depends: qemu-efi-aarch64 Filename: pool/universe/e/edk2/qemu-efi_0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 6648 MD5sum: 90f6cbf51fe1894d9fb6dd4f555d85c4 SHA1: 0863a4ec3b43ab642c0e18357bca0155384aa55d SHA256: 2bf0a304b9e8caac65932fc0fc2e882787f82cb8c44fb6d871fcddeeaec574b8 Homepage: http://www.tianocore.org Description-en: transitional dummy package This is a transitional dummy package. It contains a compatibility symlink of /usr/share/qemu-efi/QEMU_EFI.fd to /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd.

There are three methods to install qemu-efi 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 qemu-efi Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-efi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-efi

Install qemu-efi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-efi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qemu-efi

Install qemu-efi 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 qemu-efi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-efi

How To Uninstall qemu-efi on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the qemu-efi package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qemu-efi

Uninstall qemu-efi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qemu-efi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-efi

Remove qemu-efi Configurations and Data

To remove qemu-efi configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-efi

Remove qemu-efi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qemu-efi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-efi

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-efi package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.