How To Install plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7.

What is plymouth-core-libs

This package contains the libply and libply-splash-core libraries used by Plymouth. This package contains the libply and libply-splash-core libraries used by Plymouth.

We can use yum or dnf to install plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth-core-libs.

Install plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install plymouth-core-libs

Install plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install plymouth-core-libs

How To Uninstall plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove plymouth-core-libs

References

• plymouth-core-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-core-libs on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.