How To Install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. plymouth-scripts.x86_64 is Plymouth related scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `plymouth-scripts.x86_64`

This package contains scripts that help integrate Plymouth with the system.

We can use yum to install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth-scripts.x86_64.

Install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plymouth-scripts.x86_64

How To Uninstall plymouth-scripts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the plymouth-scripts.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove plymouth-scripts.x86_64

plymouth-scripts.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-generate-initrd
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme

References

plymouth-scripts.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-scripts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.