How To Install libplymouth-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libplymouth-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libplymouth-dev
libplymouth-dev is:
Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
This package contains the development files to build Plymouth plugins.
Package: libplymouth-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: plymouth Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 792 Depends: libplymouth5 (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6) Breaks: plymouth-dev (« 0.9.2-1~) Replaces: plymouth-dev (« 0.9.2-1~) Filename: pool/main/p/plymouth/libplymouth-dev_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 114696 MD5sum: b7a037bf8f2885227d3c7b099c485c90 SHA1: 60c54ddab65e7c81db2ee9605a312baed9c7a32d SHA256: 46d9b741f977bba4029e7af87acb4bca70bbdeedf8aabf83fc7321ee38b340f9 Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: graphical boot animation and logger - development files Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
This package contains the development files to build Plymouth plugins.
There are three methods to install libplymouth-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libplymouth-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libplymouth-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libplymouth-dev
Install libplymouth-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libplymouth-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libplymouth-dev
Install libplymouth-dev 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 libplymouth-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libplymouth-dev
How To Uninstall libplymouth-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libplymouth-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libplymouth-dev
Uninstall libplymouth-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libplymouth-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libplymouth-dev
Remove libplymouth-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libplymouth-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libplymouth-dev
Remove libplymouth-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libplymouth-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libplymouth-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libplymouth-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.