How to Install and Uninstall syslinux-efi Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "syslinux-efi" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install syslinux-efi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                syslinux-efi
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "syslinux-efi" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall syslinux-efi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                syslinux-efi
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the syslinux-efi package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: syslinux-efi
Architecture: all
Version: 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
Built-Using: gnu-efi (= 3.0.9-1)
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Source: syslinux
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian CD Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 459
Recommends: syslinux-common
Suggests: dosfstools
Filename: pool/universe/s/syslinux/syslinux-efi_6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3_all.deb
Size: 150596
MD5sum: 8770c03502fe61ffe49e99a62d3a1aac
SHA1: 985be4d838fd77fd5f28f32e12cc22bcba99c42c
SHA256: 0f49502741cd8a9ad8f19bdde833bde190c32a01775c077204a65c0b27a58dd2
SHA512: 542362fd2291814a3b7b24c3aa772fc5c7ab957fe744c754de8624bb3da0d695e964195b81d8078df788c6dc43e3414e55eff8eab47a30ab75795befd45c5199
Homepage: http://www.syslinux.org/
Description-en: collection of bootloaders (UEFI bootloader)
syslinux is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT and NTFS
filesystems (SYSLINUX), Linux ext2/ext3/ext4, btrfs, and xfs filesystems
(EXTLINUX), PXE network boots (PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX).
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This package contains the bootloader for the Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (EFI).
Description-md5: ad8ad4a95efc35ec00ded5d850b4debc