How To Install plymouth on CentOS 8

plymouth is Graphical Boot Animation and Logger

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on CentOS 8.

What is `plymouth`

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 or dnf to install plymouth on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth.

Install plymouth on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plymouth

Install plymouth on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install plymouth

How To Uninstall plymouth on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove plymouth

plymouth Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/logrotate.d/bootlog
/etc/plymouth
/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
/usr/bin/plymouth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/0e2ed1bfbef98b4a09816c720aa898c49749bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/4e2fa858f202921d9861f30c8ed782c421b73c
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/83c5bdfd64da8f9b11345eb46a918f1c2dfbed
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/510fa2f8a1812fe4a6f0ddbb5bf442ce66e936
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/44f8e0a27bbf20535b12d6f77cb54b51769af2
/usr/lib/systemd/system
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants/plymouth-halt.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.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-initramfs.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/poweroff.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants/plymouth-reboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.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/text.so
/usr/lib64/plymouth/tribar.so
/usr/libexec/plymouth
/usr/sbin/plymouthd
/usr/share/doc/plymouth
/usr/share/doc/plymouth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/plymouth/README
/usr/share/licenses/plymouth
/usr/share/licenses/plymouth/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/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
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/tribar/tribar.plymouth
/var/lib/plymouth
/var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration
/var/run/plymouth
/var/spool/plymouth

References

plymouth website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.