How to Install and Uninstall grub-firmware-qemu Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "grub-firmware-qemu" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install grub-firmware-qemu on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                grub-firmware-qemu
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "grub-firmware-qemu" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall grub-firmware-qemu on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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-firmware-qemu package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: grub-firmware-qemu
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.04-1ubuntu47
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Source: grub2
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1918
Recommends: qemu
Enhances: qemu
Filename: pool/universe/g/grub2/grub-firmware-qemu_2.04-1ubuntu47_amd64.deb
Size: 662992
MD5sum: 5edda502892178886035841aeb3f8a6f
SHA1: 540c3dfb87dcd8db6172f6c6cb9ba1c29f50294f
SHA256: ccac127d44a86495d1f3dd9f80ddd0328532da10d692dc56b30d177668fca980
SHA512: c0449416d220f6bd2be4dfd3d8ca313b062a4e8edc21d18c846cc26f602741b0cde2b3352c32c70f3c047b28cd0323569a6149b1bc8f404d6814568d6a0a3499
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Description-en: GRUB firmware image for QEMU
This package contains a binary of GRUB that has been built for use as
firmware for QEMU. It can be used as a replacement for other PC BIOS
images provided by seabios, bochsbios, and so on.
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In order to make QEMU use this firmware, simply add `-bios grub.bin' when
invoking it.
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This package behaves in the same way as GRUB for coreboot, but doesn't
contain any code from coreboot itself, and is only suitable for QEMU. If
you want to install GRUB as firmware on real hardware, you need to use the
grub-coreboot package, and manually combine that with coreboot.
Description-md5: cc3754b92a7e1d8e16c04265627088b6