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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "grub-linuxbios" package

This tutorial shows how to install grub-linuxbios 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-linuxbios" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall grub-linuxbios 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-linuxbios package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: grub-linuxbios
Source: grub2
Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 12
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: grub-coreboot (= 2.06-13+deb12u1), grub-common (= 2.06-13+deb12u1)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)
Description-md5: 8d63829707a75c424f8ce33f10391cc0
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-linuxbios_2.06-13+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 2360
MD5sum: 60f4305dbf7fbf4573b257298a92a56f
SHA256: 221fc6e256ad534f75a0d1cfc2907002784d2e89201c7bbc10ef26f73d7c2b5d