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

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "grub-legacy" package

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


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall grub-legacy on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: grub-legacy
Source: grub
Version: 0.97-75
Installed-Size: 729
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub (<< 0.97-54)
Provides: grub
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.7), grub-common
Suggests: grub-legacy-doc, multiboot, mdadm
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
Description-md5: 991243c507711c56039f45ff582501ab
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub/grub-legacy_0.97-75_amd64.deb
Size: 300448
MD5sum: 67b45a45e970a2e4d4e27a7ea958724e
SHA256: fc8f32f6b38f5f799111926387c3fdc520a445a700f44dd037ebaf9d3d5f9f94