How To Install plymouth on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth in Fedora 36. plymouth is Graphical Boot Animation and Logger

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth.

Install plymouth on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install plymouth

Install plymouth on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove plymouth

plymouth Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/logrotate.d/bootlog
/etc/plymouth
/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
/usr/bin/plymouth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/e45cdefaa0a52409679b3af0244fe4bd135c8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/db05ec8a3e106fb158e76af8a645b1c4251f60
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/584e265a02b19acbad596c23cec1027fb07533
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/e4466f36903eaa8d7ad360f7357dbce6a2a5de
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/84e805d864b2d86b92221a2719e415bf54dad8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/99b8efc36f038349558669ce785f7887d70538
/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-fd-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/fa/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/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/hr/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

plymouth website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).