How To Install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8. plymouth-core-libs is Plymouth core libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `plymouth-core-libs`

This package contains the libply and libply-splash-core libraries used by Plymouth.

We can use yum or dnf to install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth-core-libs.

Install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth-core-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plymouth-core-libs

Install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth-core-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plymouth-core-libs

How To Uninstall plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the plymouth-core-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove plymouth-core-libs

plymouth-core-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/2069c29eed8b1f8e62c525d03c804951e9642e
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/398684c6b3fc1bc3b2f497b4a9a067ec8a2ed3
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/81a7ae4d0fdfb258c6e89bbdcfcbdb817e8975
/usr/lib/libply-boot-client.so.5
/usr/lib/libply-boot-client.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/libply-splash-core.so.5
/usr/lib/libply-splash-core.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/libply.so.5
/usr/lib/libply.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/plymouth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/f73ffb7c756cdc3a1c1aa6a897344a837ee4d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/92c557dafb5f4da1a5dc7ba5f72d7773164331
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/21f8d03ecb43f53be729028e2d1555ec99d64f
/usr/lib64/libply-boot-client.so.5
/usr/lib64/libply-boot-client.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so.5
/usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib64/libply.so.5
/usr/lib64/libply.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib64/plymouth

References

plymouth-core-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-core-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.