How To Install qemu-efi on Ubuntu 20.04
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
References
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
.