How To Install plymouth-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-devel on CentOS 7. plymouth-devel is Libraries and headers for writing Plymouth splash plugins

Introduction

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

What is plymouth-devel

This package contains the libply and libplybootsplash libraries and headers needed to develop 3rd party splash plugins for Plymouth. This package contains the libply and libplybootsplash libraries and headers needed to develop 3rd party splash plugins for Plymouth.

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

Install plymouth-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plymouth-devel

Install plymouth-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plymouth-devel

How To Uninstall plymouth-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove plymouth-devel

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Summary

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