How To Install gfxboot-themes on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfxboot-themes on Ubuntu 18.04. gfxboot-themes is tool to test and create graphical boot logos (themes)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfxboot-themes on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is gfxboot-themes

gfxboot-themes is:

gfxboot is a tool to test and create graphical boot logos for gfxboot compliant boot loaders. Currently, this includes grub, lilo, and syslinux (all payloads).

This package contains full featured themes (KDE, openSUSE, SLED, SLES, and upstream).

There are three methods to install gfxboot-themes on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gfxboot-themes Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gfxboot-themes using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gfxboot-themes

Install gfxboot-themes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gfxboot-themes using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gfxboot-themes

Install gfxboot-themes Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gfxboot-themes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gfxboot-themes

How To Uninstall gfxboot-themes on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the gfxboot-themes package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gfxboot-themes

Uninstall gfxboot-themes And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gfxboot-themes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gfxboot-themes

Remove gfxboot-themes Configurations and Data

To remove gfxboot-themes configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gfxboot-themes

Remove gfxboot-themes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gfxboot-themes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gfxboot-themes

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfxboot-themes package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.