How To Install plymouth-theme-mobian on Debian 12

Learn how to install plymouth-theme-mobian on Debian 12 with this tutorial. plymouth-theme-mobian is boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - Mobian theme

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-mobian on Debian 12.

What is plymouth-theme-mobian

plymouth-theme-mobian 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 default Mobian theme.

There are three methods to install plymouth-theme-mobian on Debian 12. 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-theme-mobian 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-theme-mobian using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-theme-mobian

Install plymouth-theme-mobian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-theme-mobian using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plymouth-theme-mobian

Install plymouth-theme-mobian 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-theme-mobian using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-theme-mobian

How To Uninstall plymouth-theme-mobian on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove plymouth-theme-mobian

Uninstall plymouth-theme-mobian And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plymouth-theme-mobian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-theme-mobian

Remove plymouth-theme-mobian Configurations and Data

To remove plymouth-theme-mobian configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-theme-mobian

Remove plymouth-theme-mobian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plymouth-theme-mobian configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-theme-mobian

Dependencies

plymouth-theme-mobian have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-theme-mobian package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.