How To Install plymouth-theme-spinner on Ubuntu 22.04
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
References
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
.