How to Install Grub Customizer in Ubuntu 17.04

Grub Customizer, one of the must install applications, has made the official binary packages for Ubuntu 17.04 a few days ago.

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menu entries. It features:

• move, remove or rename menuentries
• edit the contents of menuentries or create new ones (internally it edits the 40_custom)
• support for GRUB2 and BURG
• reinstallation of the bootloader to MBR
• settings like default operating system, kernel params, background image and text colors etc.
• changing the installed operating system by running on a live cd

To install Grub Customizer in Ubuntu 17.04, do following steps one by one:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “Terminal” from start menu. When it opens, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

Type in your password (no visual feedback) and hit Enter.

2. Then install grub-customizer package via either Synaptic Package Manager or by running commands:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install grub-customizer

Uninstall

To remove the PPA, go to System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Other Software.

To remove the software, either use Synaptic Package Manager or run command:

sudo apt remove grub-customizer && sudo apt autoremove