How To Install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text 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 default ubuntu-text text theme used when no support for a graphical theme is found on your system. Task: standard
Package: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Priority: standard Section: x11 Source: plymouth Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 79 Provides: plymouth-theme Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libplymouth5 (>= 0.9.2), plymouth (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6), lsb-release Filename: pool/main/p/plymouth/plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 9512 MD5sum: 65873ad214ddc7819bff607b3d777284 SHA1: 45077ce0c83a11d81ba5928a9848ce9e0ce2550c SHA256: 119a5a830219b5f79f18ef4c4120f09c2ddad8cb74bead3cd81bc1884b5d8786 Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - ubuntu text theme 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 default ubuntu-text text theme used when no support for a graphical theme is found on your system. Task: standard
There are three methods to install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text 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 plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text 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-ubuntu-text using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
Install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
Install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text 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-ubuntu-text using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
How To Uninstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
Uninstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
Remove plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
Remove plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
