How To Install plymouth-x11 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-x11 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plymouth-x11
plymouth-x11 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 X11 renderer for a graphical boot splash.
Package: plymouth-x11 Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Priority: optional Section: universe/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: 73 Depends: plymouth (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libplymouth5 (>= 0.9.3) Recommends: plymouth-theme-spinner | plymouth-theme Suggests: gdm Filename: pool/universe/p/plymouth/plymouth-x11_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 8328 MD5sum: 28a8d99f0bdfd8bb4689a2461d3a7179 SHA1: b6c94392bb019fe4474335327c6664a2d7ebecde SHA256: d555e66940f452af546b1a47232a33e807cd9419568bebad4550185b0fbd00bf Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - X11 renderer 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 X11 renderer for a graphical boot splash.
There are three methods to install plymouth-x11 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-x11 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-x11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-x11
Install plymouth-x11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-x11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth-x11
Install plymouth-x11 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-x11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-x11
How To Uninstall plymouth-x11 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plymouth-x11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth-x11
Uninstall plymouth-x11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth-x11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-x11
Remove plymouth-x11 Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth-x11 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-x11
Remove plymouth-x11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth-x11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-x11
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-x11 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
