How to Install and Uninstall shim-signed Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "shim-signed" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install shim-signed on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                shim-signed
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "shim-signed" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall shim-signed on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


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

Package: shim-signed
Source: shim-signed (1.38)
Version: 1.38+15.4-7
Installed-Size: 937
Maintainer: Debian EFI Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: shim-signed-common (>= 1.38+15.4-7), grub-efi-amd64-bin, shim-helpers-amd64-signed (>= 1+15.4+2), grub2-common (>= 2.02+dfsg1-16)
Recommends: secureboot-db
Description: Secure Boot chain-loading bootloader (Microsoft-signed binary)
Description-md5: a481805ba65b750cfdd6438a7d8539a2
Multi-Arch: same
Built-Using: shim (= 15.4-7)
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/shim-signed/shim-signed_1.38+15.4-7_amd64.deb
Size: 319604
MD5sum: ddb0d85ecb9e88fdd069498b8672898e
SHA256: faf99156e5ab340e6d2e4304e0c8a37bd70cef82427e0646024554b63610ab1d