How to Install and Uninstall grub2-common Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "grub2-common" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install grub2-common on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "grub2-common" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall grub2-common on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the grub2-common package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: grub2-common
Source: grub2
Version: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4
Installed-Size: 1185
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub, grub-cloud-amd64 (<< 0.0.4), grub-common (<< 1.99-1), grub-coreboot (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-doc (<< 0.97-32), grub-efi-amd64 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-arm (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-arm64 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-ia32 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-ia64 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-ieee1275 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-legacy, grub-legacy-doc (<< 0.97-59), grub-pc (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-uboot (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-xen (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-yeeloong (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7)
Depends: grub-common (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, libc6 (>= 2.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36), libefiboot1 (>= 37), libefivar1 (>= 37), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614)
Conflicts: grub-legacy
Breaks: grub (<< 0.97-54), grub-cloud-amd64 (<< 0.0.4), grub-coreboot (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-doc (<< 0.97-32), grub-efi-amd64 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-arm (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-arm64 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-ia32 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-efi-ia64 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-ieee1275 (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-legacy-doc (<< 0.97-59), grub-pc (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-uboot (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-xen (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), grub-yeeloong (<< 2.02+dfsg1-7), shim (<< 0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-0ubuntu1~)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)
Description-md5: a969e6536e745e177a340b30bdb5ba3f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Tag: admin::boot, devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c,
role::app-data, role::devel-lib, role::documentation, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub2-common_2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4_amd64.deb
Size: 541500
MD5sum: 58d1bc7db73204f1dcd05e0c370a3f46
SHA256: 38c2b1951d9025d6af7f4b36c193578939a532d3d5c27e590b9db71971474f61