How To Install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is plymouth-label
plymouth-label 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 contains the label control, used by various graphical themes to render text.
There are three methods to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install plymouth-label 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-label using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-label
Install plymouth-label Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-label using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth-label
Install plymouth-label 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 plymouth-label using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-label
How To Uninstall plymouth-label on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the plymouth-label package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth-label
Uninstall plymouth-label And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth-label and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-label
Remove plymouth-label Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth-label configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-label
Remove plymouth-label configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth-label configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-label
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-label package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
