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

Last updated: May 12,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "grub-emu" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install grub-emu on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall grub-emu 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-emu package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: grub-emu
Source: grub2
Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 18746
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub-common (<= 1.97~beta3-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.15), grub-common (= 2.06-13+deb12u1)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (emulated version)
Description-md5: eaa24f3f146f8d2e05f7109f088cfa8b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses, uitoolkit::sdl
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-emu_2.06-13+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 4225668
MD5sum: fe830ed768b33a8d7fd03f512388ec35
SHA256: fa9eeb9993d04ba37fca6828244cbb2ed347aed6e64f2da072f117b55b691e6b