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

Last updated: November 22,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "grub-legacy" package

This is a short guide on how to install grub-legacy 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-legacy" package

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


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

Package: grub-legacy
Source: grub
Version: 0.97-80
Installed-Size: 725
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub (<< 0.97-54)
Provides: grub
Depends: grub-common, libc6-i386 (>= 2.33)
Suggests: grub-legacy-doc, mdadm, multiboot
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
Description-md5: 991243c507711c56039f45ff582501ab
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub/grub-legacy_0.97-80_amd64.deb
Size: 301896
MD5sum: ef41fa5f02712c214c7c3baba276099f
SHA256: 5af879553d2f20f2f8d585b85bc2b7aa0e3360d1f2744e76c8498d53967c3801