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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "grub-efi" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install grub-efi 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-efi" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall grub-efi 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-efi package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: grub-efi
Source: grub2
Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 12
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: grub-common (= 2.06-13+deb12u1), grub-efi-amd64 (= 2.06-13+deb12u1)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)
Description-md5: 2e384f4cebd455e65f849ef1c510f0be
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi_2.06-13+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 2388
MD5sum: f0980b55dc9e0719dc6887a29d830673
SHA256: 1a1eb3113b3c3edb3a726957e66751bad863bd83e4c593a89736c77c35ceb838