How To Install plymouth on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Kali Linux. plymouth is boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth

Remove plymouth Configurations and Data

To remove plymouth configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.