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Re: I cannot disable os-prober MX23
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 11:50 pm
by pbear
@fehlix, for what it's worth, I can't get debconf to work either. Ran multiple times as you suggest. dpkg-reconfigure shows the box unticked. get-selections confirms false. Still, os-prober runs.
On the bright side, to answer your other question, disabling 30_os-prober works fine in MX-23. To anyone considering the option, I suggest putting a comment in /etc/default/grub to remind yourself you've done it.
Re: I cannot disable os-prober MX23
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 3:03 am
by BitterTruth
Since os-prober is just a program/utility, I thought why can't it just be uninstalled?
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~$ dpkg -s os-prober
Package: os-prober
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Steven Pusser <stevep@mxlinux.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.77mx19+1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), grub-common
Description: utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
This package detects other OSes available on a system and outputs the
results in a generic machine-readable format.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
uninstall shows:
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~$ sudo apt-get remove os-prober
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
fskbsetting gazelle-installer-data-mx grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32-bin
linux-image-4.19.0-23-amd64 python-configobj python-gobject
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mx-installer os-prober
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,355 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
mx-installer has a dependancy on it. Is it safe to remove mx-installer? (mx-installer is not the same as mx-packageinstaller)
If it's safe to remove mx-installer as well then os-prober can just be uninstalled rather than messing around with scripts