How to Install and Uninstall grub-common Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "grub-common" package

Please follow the guidance below to install grub-common on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                grub-common
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "grub-common" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall grub-common on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                grub-common
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the grub-common package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: grub-common
Source: grub2
Version: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4
Installed-Size: 16220
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub-coreboot (<< 2.00-4), grub-efi (<< 1.99-1), grub-efi-amd64 (<< 2.00-4), grub-efi-ia32 (<< 2.00-4), grub-efi-ia64 (<< 2.00-4), grub-ieee1275 (<< 2.00-4), grub-linuxbios (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-pc (<< 2.00-4), grub-yeeloong (<< 2.00-4), init-select
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36), libefiboot1 (>= 37), libefivar1 (>= 37), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfuse2 (>= 2.8.4-1.4), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), gettext-base
Recommends: os-prober (>= 1.33)
Suggests: multiboot-doc, grub-emu, xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00), desktop-base (>= 4.0.6), console-setup
Conflicts: init-select
Breaks: apport (<< 2.1.1), friendly-recovery (<< 0.2.13), lupin-support (<< 0.55), mdadm (<< 2.6.7-2)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
Description-md5: 6e1c01c5245ffb9578aee58ee944229b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Tag: admin::boot, admin::configuring, devel::TODO, implemented-in::c,
implemented-in::shell, role::app-data, role::examples, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4_amd64.deb
Size: 2488636
MD5sum: 372deb1f9e7563d3bd283a99cea6b46f
SHA256: 6b07b031a7cbee0ba0ec1031c055257ff15e0001438b356122c02a526a8f97c3