How to Install and Uninstall efibootmgr Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 02,2024

You can also install and uninstall the efibootmgr on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "efibootmgr" package

This tutorial shows how to install efibootmgr on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                efibootmgr
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "efibootmgr" package

Learn how to uninstall efibootmgr on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                efibootmgr
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the efibootmgr package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: efibootmgr
Version: 17-2
Installed-Size: 87
Maintainer: Debian UEFI Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libefiboot1 (>= 37), libefivar1 (>= 37), libpopt0 (>= 1.14)
Description: Interact with the EFI Boot Manager
Description-md5: 369972310544ed380f184ea38af94a83
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: admin::boot, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility,
use::configuring
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/efibootmgr/efibootmgr_17-2_amd64.deb
Size: 27572
MD5sum: 3181a5bb6be70765d00fe6c084ac47d3
SHA256: 8eb29bcc1bfd4df25b2817915a056ac81812a418867e7737575b6eecdf58265f