How To Install grub-customizer on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-customizer on Ubuntu.

What is `grub-customizer`

grub-customizer is:

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure GRUB2 and BURG. It can do changes for settings and menuentries easily.

Grub Customizer has the following features:

Move, remove or rename menuentries (they stey updatable by update-grub).
Edit the contents of menuentries or create new ones (internally it edits the 40_custom file).
Provide reinstallation of the bootloader to MBR.
Allow make settings like default operating system, kernel params, background image, text colors, etc.
Allow one to change the installed operating system by running on a live CD/DVD or from an OS inside a flash drive.

Grub Customizer is useful for customizations and recovering actions over any Linux distribution.

There are three methods to install grub-customizer on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install grub-customizer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-customizer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install grub-customizer

Install grub-customizer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-customizer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grub-customizer

Install grub-customizer Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install grub-customizer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grub-customizer

How To Uninstall grub-customizer on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the grub-customizer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove grub-customizer

Uninstall grub-customizer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall grub-customizer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-customizer

Remove grub-customizer Configurations and Data

To remove grub-customizer configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grub-customizer

Remove grub-customizer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove grub-customizer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-customizer

Dependencies

grub-customizer have the following dependencies:

References

grub-customizer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-customizer package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.