How To Install plymouth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. plymouth.x86_64 is Graphical Boot Animation and Logger

Introduction

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

What is `plymouth.x86_64`

Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing after boot.

We can use yum to install plymouth.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.x86_64.

Install plymouth.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plymouth.x86_64

How To Uninstall plymouth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove plymouth.x86_64

plymouth.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/logrotate.d/bootlog
/etc/plymouth
/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
/usr/bin/plymouth
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants/plymouth-halt.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants/plymouth-start.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kexec.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kexec.target.wants/plymouth-kexec.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plymouth-quit-wait.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plymouth-quit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-halt.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-kexec.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-poweroff.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-read-write.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-reboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-switch-root.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants/plymouth-poweroff.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants/plymouth-reboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/plymouth-read-write.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/plymouth-start.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service
/usr/lib64/plymouth/details.so
/usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers
/usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers/drm.so
/usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers/frame-buffer.so
/usr/lib64/plymouth/text.so
/usr/libexec/plymouth
/usr/sbin/plymouthd
/usr/share/doc/plymouth-0.8.9
/usr/share/doc/plymouth-0.8.9/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/plymouth-0.8.9/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/plymouth-0.8.9/README
/usr/share/man/man1/plymouth-set-default-theme.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plymouth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/plymouth.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/plymouthd.8.gz
/usr/share/plymouth
/usr/share/plymouth/default-boot-duration
/usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults
/usr/share/plymouth/themes
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/details
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/details/details.plymouth
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/text
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/text/text.plymouth
/var/lib/plymouth
/var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration
/var/run/plymouth
/var/spool/plymouth

References

plymouth.x86_64 website

Summary

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