href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-4/24/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.3</p>
+6/24/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.3</p>
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<p>I know of a small number of pre-packaged versions of rEFInd, either in official OS repositories or in ancillary repositories:</p>
-<p class="sidebar"><b>Warning:</b> Ubuntu 16.04's <tt>sbsigntool</tt> package has a bug that causes the <tt>sbsign</tt> utility to crash randomly. (See <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sbsigntool/+bug/1574372">this bug report</a> for details.) When installing Ubuntu with Secure Boot active from the PPA, this bug will be triggered and is likely to prevent successful installation. Therefore, I recommend you disable Secure Boot or install from the Debian package (with the <tt>sbsigntool</tt> package <i>uninstalled</i>) to avoid this problem. This bug does not exist in Ubuntu 15.10 and earlier.</p>
-
<ul>
-<li><a name="ppa"><b>Ubuntu</b></a>—Although an official Ubuntu package
- isn't available, I've created a <a
- href="https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/refind">rEFInd PPA</a> for
- Ubuntu. To use it, open a Terminal window and type <tt
- class="userinput">sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind</tt>, then <tt
- class="userinput">sudo apt-get update</tt>. You can then type <tt
- class="userinput">sudo apt-get install refind</tt> to install the package.
- You'll be asked to decide whether to install rEFInd to the ESP when you
- first install it. Thereafter, the rEFInd version will update along with your
- other software. This package is built with GNU-EFI and is not signed with a
- Secure Boot key; however, the install script should sign the binary with a
- locally-generated key if it detects that your system uses Secure Boot. Thus,
- if you've previously installed one of my binaries on a Secure Boot system
- and added its key as a MOK, you'll have to add your local key when you
- reboot.</li>
+<li><b>Debian</b>—Debian added rEFInd 0.10.3 to its "sid" (unstable")
+ repository in June of 2016. Because most people don't use this
+ "bleeding-edge" version of the distribution, it is not yet a practical
+ option for most users; but it is on the way. You can download and
+ install it as a separate package <a
+ href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/refind">here.</a>
+ Debian's inclusion of rEFInd means that derivative distributions, such
+ as Ubuntu and Mint, will eventually receive rEFInd packages, too. Be
+ aware that Debian's package is not signed with a Secure Boot key,
+ although if the <tt>sbsigntool</tt> package is installed, the
+ installation scripts will generate and use their own Secure Boot
+ keys and sign the binary with them.</li>
+
+<li><b>Ubuntu</b>—Two Ubuntu-specific methods of installing rEFInd in
+ this distribution exist:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Ubuntu 16.10 ("Yakkety Yak") has synced the Debian package. As I
+ write (in late June, 2016), it's not yet available in the
+ repositories, but it should appear there eventually. Note that, like
+ the Debian package, this one is not signed for use with Secure Boot,
+ but if your system includes the <tt>sbsigntool</tt> package, the
+ installer will generate a local key for this purpose.</li>
+
+ <li>I've created a <a
+ href="https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/refind">rEFInd
+ PPA</a> for Ubuntu. To use it, open a Terminal window and type <tt
+ class="userinput">sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind</tt>,
+ then <tt class="userinput">sudo apt-get update</tt>. You can then
+ type <tt class="userinput">sudo apt-get install refind</tt> to
+ install the package. You'll be asked to decide whether to install
+ rEFInd to the ESP when you first install it. Thereafter, the rEFInd
+ version will update along with your other software. This package is
+ built with GNU-EFI and is not signed with a Secure Boot key;
+ however, the install script should sign the binary with a
+ locally-generated key if it detects that your system uses Secure
+ Boot. Thus, if you've previously installed one of my binaries on a
+ Secure Boot system and added its key as a MOK, you'll have to add
+ your local key when you reboot.</li>
+
+ </ul></li>
<li><b>Arch Linux</b>—You can obtain rEFInd from the Arch
repositories, in both a stable version (the <tt>refind-efi</tt> package