How to Install and Uninstall grub-common Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 11,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "grub-common" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install grub-common on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall grub-common on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: grub-common
Source: grub2
Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 17773
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 (>= 2.34), 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, mtools, 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: 9c75036dc0a0792fedbc58df208ed227
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_2.06-13+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 2708792
MD5sum: 91171573aa5b430d77f5205adad0a00d
SHA256: 0e04e5339cd45398ae32406651f4f5bdd54c2a271aeea9aa3d95b571888a19f3