How To Install libplymouth5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libplymouth5 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libplymouth5
libplymouth5 is:
Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
This package contains the shared libraries. Task: standard
Package: libplymouth5 Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: same Priority: standard Section: libs Source: plymouth Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 416 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libudev1 (>= 183) Breaks: plymouth (« 0.9.2-1~) Replaces: plymouth (« 0.9.2-1~) Filename: pool/main/p/plymouth/libplymouth5_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 98152 MD5sum: 5c1d1a56387137e550ba4b7933e3a2c8 SHA1: 1d5c1cc65a61efd567e789eca4f643b47b4425cc SHA256: 310b12cef280f0e973119fbe4611c70ec5d7c3386abbc6fd2e9a058314608c91 Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: graphical boot animation and logger - shared libraries Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
This package contains the shared libraries. Task: standard
There are three methods to install libplymouth5 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libplymouth5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libplymouth5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libplymouth5
Install libplymouth5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libplymouth5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libplymouth5
Install libplymouth5 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libplymouth5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libplymouth5
How To Uninstall libplymouth5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libplymouth5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libplymouth5
Uninstall libplymouth5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libplymouth5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libplymouth5
Remove libplymouth5 Configurations and Data
To remove libplymouth5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libplymouth5
Remove libplymouth5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libplymouth5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libplymouth5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libplymouth5 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
