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How To Uninstall shim-signed On Linux Mint 18.2
To uninstall shim-signed just follow these instructions.
Are you having problems? You can always add shim-signedagain by following the instructions at this link.
Uninstall just shim-signed
http://installion.co.uk/linuxmint/sonya/upstream/s/shim-signed/uninstall/index.htmlSecure Boot chain-loading bootloader (Microsoft-signed binary) signatures of other UEFI binaries against either the Secure Boot DB/DBX or against a built-in signature database. Its purpose is to allow a small, infrequently-changing binary to be signed by the UEFI CA, while allowing an OS distributor to revision their main bootloader independently of the CA.Linux Mint 18.2utils1.27~16.04.1+0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-1ubuntu1+linuxmint1sudo apt-get remove shim-signed
This will remove just the shim-signed package itself.
Uninstall shim-signed and its dependencies
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove shim-signed
This will remove the shim-signed package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.
Purging your config/data too
If you also want to delete your local/config files for shim-signed then this will work.
Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.
sudo apt-get purge shim-signed
Or similarly, like this shim-signed
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove shim-signed
Package Data
| Package | shim-signed |
| Version | 1.27~16.04.1+0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-1ubuntu1+linuxmint1 |
| Maintainer | Steve Langasek <[email protected]> |
| Description | Secure Boot chain-loading bootloader (Microsoft-signed binary) signatures of other UEFI binaries against either the Secure Boot DB/DBX or against a built-in signature database. Its purpose is to allow a small, infrequently-changing binary to be signed by the UEFI CA, while allowing an OS distributor to revision their main bootloader independently of the CA. |
| Distro | linuxmint |
| Release | sonya |
| Repo | upstream |
| Section | utils |