How to Install petitboot software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install petitboot software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

petitboot software package provides ncurses version of petitboot, a kexec based bootloader, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install petitboot 

petitboot is installed in your system.

Make ensure the petitboot package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep petitboot *

You will get with petitboot package name, version, architecture and description in a table

petitboot package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package petitboot
Version 13.05.29.14.00-g4dc604b-1
Description ncurses version of petitboot, a kexec based bootloader
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove petitboot software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?