Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed
Date	2021-06-24 17:20 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 05:06:50PM +0200, Markus wrote:
> I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this:
> 
> markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  grub-efi-amd64 : Depends: grub-common (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3)
>                   Depends: grub2-common (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3)
>                   Depends: grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3)
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$

Start by getting more information:

apt policy grub-efi-amd64 grub-common grub2-common grub-efi-amd64-bin

It wouldn't hurt to double-check your sources.list as well.

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Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
  Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-23 17:10 +0200
    Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 18:10 +0200
      Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 08:50 +0200
        Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-24 13:20 +0200
          Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 17:10 +0200
            Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-24 17:20 +0200
              Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 18:50 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-24 19:00 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-07 08:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-07 09:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-07 12:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-07 14:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-07 14:40 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-07 21:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-08 10:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-08 12:00 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-08 12:20 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-07 13:30 +0200
            Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-08 16:50 +0200
        Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-24 16:10 +0200
          Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-06-24 16:10 +0200
          Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 17:00 +0200

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