How to Install and Uninstall grub-common Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "grub-common" package

This is a short guide on how to install grub-common on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall grub-common on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                grub-common
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the grub-common package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: grub-common
Source: grub2
Version: 2.04-20
Installed-Size: 17422
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub-coreboot (<< 2.00-4), grub-efi (<< 1.99-1), grub-efi-amd64 (<< 2.00-4), grub-efi-ia32 (<< 2.00-4), grub-efi-ia64 (<< 2.00-4), grub-ieee1275 (<< 2.00-4), grub-linuxbios (<< 1.96+20080831-1), grub-pc (<< 2.00-4), grub-yeeloong (<< 2.00-4), init-select
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36), libefiboot1 (>= 37), libefivar1 (>= 37), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfuse2 (>= 2.8.4-1.4), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), gettext-base
Recommends: os-prober (>= 1.33)
Suggests: multiboot-doc, grub-emu, mtools, xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00), desktop-base (>= 4.0.6), console-setup
Conflicts: init-select
Breaks: apport (<< 2.1.1), friendly-recovery (<< 0.2.13), lupin-support (<< 0.55), mdadm (<< 2.6.7-2)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
Description-md5: 9c75036dc0a0792fedbc58df208ed227
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Tag: admin::boot, admin::configuring, devel::TODO, implemented-in::c,
implemented-in::shell, role::app-data, role::examples, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_2.04-20_amd64.deb
Size: 2628756
MD5sum: 362a98bf502bedd44afb1b47ffb3f7e1
SHA256: e753de303238eb33ec1850d4630c3f2db4de8b7b6b83180c1fc36606699aff44