How to Install and Uninstall efivar Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "efivar" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install efivar on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                efivar
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "efivar" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall efivar on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                efivar
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the efivar package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: efivar
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 30
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian UEFI Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.23-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libefivar0 (= 0.23-2), libpopt0 (>= 1.14)
Filename: pool/main/e/efivar/efivar_0.23-2_amd64.deb
Size: 7400
MD5sum: 084afd7bc3e31b50cba250c55785926e
SHA1: 3379b8e0a69ec189e1b5f1578169648cbe811397
SHA256: 9bb485e77cd27dd1e85018b5c322ba8e70c1928a4bb8dc210e789d128a496d1a
Description-en: Tools to manage UEFI variables
efivar provides a simple command line interface to the UEFI variable facility.
Description-md5: e979ed45ae792f486c6b34862b3f2b88
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/rhinstaller/efivar
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y