How To Install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8. plymouth is Graphical Boot Animation and Logger

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `plymouth`

Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing after boot.

We can use yum or dnf to install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth.

Install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plymouth

Install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plymouth

How To Uninstall plymouth on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove plymouth

plymouth Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/bootlog
/etc/plymouth
/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
/usr/bin/plymouth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/6d2a2bb60d3ce17a4001aa852cfda9739d8ae3
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/7d4252cb4539012a63f8118e148444c6d8ac48
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/636d309e152ffb466c43b7d41c016c1a20e9f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/b0f39cfc7b96763a60c3e4e1237105438eeeeb
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/34390100dcb99b430a999c4dc121fe956211e0
/usr/lib/systemd/system
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants/plymouth-halt.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/halt.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants/plymouth-start.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kexec.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kexec.target.wants/plymouth-kexec.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plymouth-quit-wait.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plymouth-quit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-halt.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-kexec.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-poweroff.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-read-write.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-reboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-switch-root.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants/plymouth-poweroff.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants/plymouth-reboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/plymouth-read-write.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/plymouth-start.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service
/usr/lib64/plymouth/details.so
/usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers
/usr/lib64/plymouth/text.so
/usr/lib64/plymouth/tribar.so
/usr/libexec/plymouth
/usr/sbin/plymouthd
/usr/share/doc/plymouth
/usr/share/doc/plymouth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/plymouth/README
/usr/share/licenses/plymouth
/usr/share/licenses/plymouth/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/plymouth.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/plymouth-set-default-theme.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plymouth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/plymouth.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/plymouthd.8.gz
/usr/share/plymouth
/usr/share/plymouth/default-boot-duration
/usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults
/usr/share/plymouth/themes
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/details
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/details/details.plymouth
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/text
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/text/text.plymouth
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/tribar/tribar.plymouth
/var/lib/plymouth
/var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration
/var/run/plymouth
/var/spool/plymouth

References

plymouth website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.