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

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "grub-legacy" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install grub-legacy on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

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


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: grub-legacy
Source: grub
Version: 0.97-77
Installed-Size: 735
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: grub (<< 0.97-54)
Provides: grub
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.7), grub-common
Suggests: grub-legacy-doc, multiboot, mdadm
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_0.97-77_amd64.deb
Size: 301708
MD5sum: 4346277ee68602be174d0831ac60456f
SHA256: 4553ec6faa36685177162200bc823aac85a582cf9b65d95f420af274a3107020