How To Install plymouth-themes on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-themes
on Debian 10.
What is plymouth-themes
plymouth-themes 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 following themes:
- fade-in: features a centered logo that fades in and out while stars twinkle around the logo during system boot up.
- glow: features a pie chart as progress indicator.
- script: features a simple base theme.
- solar: features a blue flamed sun with animated solar flares.
- spinfinity: features a centered logo and animated spinner that spins in the shape of an infinity sign.
- spinner: features a simple theme with a small spinner on a dark background.
There are three methods to install plymouth-themes
on Debian 10. 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-themes 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-themes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-themes
Install plymouth-themes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-themes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth-themes
Install plymouth-themes 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-themes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-themes
How To Uninstall plymouth-themes on Debian 10
To uninstall only the plymouth-themes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth-themes
Uninstall plymouth-themes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth-themes
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-themes
Remove plymouth-themes Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth-themes
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-themes
Remove plymouth-themes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth-themes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-themes
Dependencies
plymouth-themes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-themes
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.