ubuntu 12.04 LTS how to avoid GRUB update‏

Wed Jan 13 12:00:31 UTC 2016

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:41:35 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>use:
>sudo apt-get purge grub-common
>
>that should remove 
>grub-gfxpayload-lists, grub-pc, grub-pc-bin and grub2-common
>alongside ... there are no reverse dependencies on them ... bootloaders
>arent required packages in ubuntu at all, just rip it out (people can
>use lilo if they want ;) ... or PXE, like you do ... or whatever else
>works for them)

The package  linux-image  recommends the package  grub-pc  ,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/linux-image-3.8.0-44-generic.
Wouldn't a linux-image package dist-upgrade, aka smart upgrade install
it, assumed the OP's apt is set up to install recommended packages?