How To Install plymouth on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plymouth
plymouth 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 provides the basic framework, enabling a text-mode animation. Task: standard
Package: plymouth Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Priority: standard Section: x11 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 876 Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), systemd (>= 232-8~), udev (>= 232-8~), libc6 (>= 2.29), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.47), libplymouth5 (>= 0.9.4git20200109) Recommends: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text | plymouth-theme Suggests: desktop-base, plymouth-themes Conflicts: console-common Breaks: plymouth-drm (« 0.9.0-6~), plymouth-themes (« 0.9.0-8~) Replaces: plymouth-drm (« 0.9.0-6~), plymouth-themes (« 0.9.0-8~) Filename: pool/main/p/plymouth/plymouth_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 118012 MD5sum: e0e95570b0e21435dc35b6d94d099c06 SHA1: 4d0c1a95cda0818db87b77d50beeb678c6337b18 SHA256: 76b8580e299533a721b1d516929f7d21a69297092201550d6fbd8180eddfa38a Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer 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 provides the basic framework, enabling a text-mode animation. Task: standard
There are three methods to install plymouth 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth
Install plymouth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth
Install plymouth 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth
How To Uninstall plymouth on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plymouth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth
Uninstall plymouth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth
Remove plymouth Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth
Remove plymouth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.