How to Install and Uninstall grub-efi-amd64 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 09,2024

You can also install and uninstall the grub-efi-amd64 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "grub-efi-amd64" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install grub-efi-amd64 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "grub-efi-amd64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall grub-efi-amd64 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-amd64 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: grub-efi-amd64
Source: grub2
Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 176
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub, grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub2 (<< 2.06-13+deb12u1)
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-common (= 2.06-13+deb12u1), grub2-common (= 2.06-13+deb12u1), grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.06-13+deb12u1), ucf
Conflicts: elilo, grub, grub-coreboot, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub-xen
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-AMD64 version)
Description-md5: 1718e7ac8c2b19e7fc9fd6edaaa9c56e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-amd64_2.06-13+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 45660
MD5sum: 8d310aecf313d9b01a812b336e2fb2d5
SHA256: 5047a6c75af9c6abb81afecb88376c5dad7b72a83ed017fca9b3a1eb41b66181