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Quick installation of gfxboot:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: gfxboot
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install gfxboot
Package Details | |
| Package: | gfxboot |
| Version: | 4.5.2-1.1-5 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://gfxboot.sourceforge.net/ |
| Description: | tool to test and create graphical boot logos (runtime) gfxboot is a tool to test and create graphical boot logos for gfxboot compliant boot loaders. Currently, this includes grub, lilo, and syslinux (all payloads). . This package contains the runtime utility. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | utils |
How to install gfxboot on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If gfxboot is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L gfxboot' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L gfxboot dpkg-query: package 'gfxboot' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing gfxboot:
After system update use the following command to install gfxboot:
sudo apt-get install gfxboot
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove gfxboot from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the gfxboot from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the gfxboot following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove gfxboot
Following command is used to remove the gfxboot package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove gfxboot
This will remove gfxboot and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing gfxboot with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge gfxboot
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove gfxboot
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with gfxboot package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
