How To Install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 20.04. plymouth-label is boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - label control boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - label control

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 20.04.

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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: plymouth-label Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Priority: optional Section: x11 Source: plymouth Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 62 Depends: plymouth (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libplymouth5 (>= 0.9.4git20190712), fonts-ubuntu, fontconfig-config Breaks: plymouth-themes (« 0.9.2-5~) Replaces: plymouth-themes (« 0.9.2-5~) Filename: pool/main/p/plymouth/plymouth-label_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 6588 MD5sum: 235942d554d7b5e4be092db7ccd20b80 SHA1: 9421b9782d4945e56ef873dda5b811fef1e96d12 SHA256: 423470779be4f6ef78a3a0642d66cb3109a8abde8ae8f33667b94f09fd963838 Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - label control 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.

There are three methods to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 20.04

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 20.04, 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 20.04 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 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.