How To Install plymouth-theme-spinner on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-spinner on Ubuntu 22.04. plymouth-theme-spinner is boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - spinner theme

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-spinner on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is plymouth-theme-spinner

plymouth-theme-spinner is:

Plymouth provides a boot-time I/O multiplexing framework - the most obvious use for which is to provide an attractive graphical animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown during boot. (The messages are instead redirected to a logfile for later viewing.) However, in event-driven boot systems Plymouth can also usefully handle user interaction such as password prompts for encrypted file systems.

This package contains the spinner theme.

There are three methods to install plymouth-theme-spinner on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install plymouth-theme-spinner Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-theme-spinner using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-theme-spinner

Install plymouth-theme-spinner Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-theme-spinner using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plymouth-theme-spinner

Install plymouth-theme-spinner 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 plymouth-theme-spinner using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-theme-spinner

How To Uninstall plymouth-theme-spinner on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the plymouth-theme-spinner package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plymouth-theme-spinner

Uninstall plymouth-theme-spinner And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plymouth-theme-spinner and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-theme-spinner

Remove plymouth-theme-spinner Configurations and Data

To remove plymouth-theme-spinner configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-theme-spinner

Remove plymouth-theme-spinner configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plymouth-theme-spinner configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-theme-spinner

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-spinner package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.