Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Grub Customizer is a nice application, that allows the user to edit the menu entries from the GRUB booting screen, set the default operating system, change the installed OS via a livecd.
The latest version available is Grub Customizer 4.0.6, which has has been released a while ago, bringing fixes.
In this article I will show you how to install Grub Customizer 4.0.6 on Debian 8.0 Jessie and derivative systems.
Because it is not available via repository, we have to download the deb packages from launchpad and install the via command-line. I prefer gdebi over dpkg due to the fact that it also handles dependencies.
Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Grub Customizer 4.0.6 on 32 bit Debian 8.0 systems:
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget "https://launchpad.net/~danielrichter2007/+archive/ubuntu/grub-customizer/+files/grub-customizer_4.0.6-0ubuntu1%7Eppa1p_i386.deb" -O grub-customizer_4.0.6_i386.deb
$ sudo gdebi grub-customizer_4.0.6_i386.deb
How to install Grub Customizer 4.0.6 on 64 bit Debian 8.0 systems:
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget "https://launchpad.net/~danielrichter2007/+archive/ubuntu/grub-customizer/+files/grub-customizer_4.0.6-0ubuntu1%7Eppa1p_amd64.deb" -O grub-customizer_4.0.6_amd64.deb
$ sudo gdebi grub-customizer_4.0.6_amd64.deb
Optional, to remove grub-customizer, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove grub-customizer