How To Install plymouth on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Debian 9.
What is plymouth
plymouth is:
Plymouth provides a boot-time I/O multiplexing framework - the most obvious use for which is to provide an attractive graphical animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown during boot. (The messages are instead redirected to a logfile for later viewing.) However, in event-driven boot systems Plymouth can also usefully handle user interaction such as password prompts for encrypted file systems.
This package provides the basic framework, enabling a text-mode animation.
There are three methods to install plymouth on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install plymouth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth
Install plymouth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth
Install plymouth 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth
How To Uninstall plymouth on Debian 9
To uninstall only the plymouth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth
Uninstall plymouth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth
Remove plymouth Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth
Remove plymouth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth
Dependencies
plymouth have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.