How To Install plymouth on Fedora 34
plymouth is Graphical Boot Animation and Logger
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth.
Install plymouth on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the plymouth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove plymouth
plymouth Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/logrotate.d/bootlog
/etc/plymouth
/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
/usr/bin/plymouth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/3c5553a2115a1937bdc5e7a5683f607e868454
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/56628a60f31156e34668dc90e254dfba6ba8af
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/79022b7bbb96d7c267783536e5848725f5b2f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/85f2de737e138415bade47c6cffa6efdc33693
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/2a1083dbd72f56330fb3fa4410ce8c01aa63b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/d9acfb73f978340247ddcd765ab01f6aea5ff9
/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/kexec.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.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/libexec/plymouth/plymouthd-drm-escrow
/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/da/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/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/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/spool/plymouth
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.