How To Install plymouth-themes on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-themes on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: plymouth-themes Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6 Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Source: plymouth Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 818 Provides: plymouth-theme, plymouth-themes-all, plymouth-themes-fade-in, plymouth-themes-glow, plymouth-themes-script, plymouth-themes-solar, plymouth-themes-spinfinity, plymouth-themes-spinner Depends: plymouth (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6), plymouth-label (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6), plymouth-theme-spinner (= 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6), libc6 (>= 2.17), libplymouth5 (>= 0.9.2) Conflicts: plymouth-themes-all, plymouth-themes-fade-in, plymouth-themes-glow, plymouth-themes-script, plymouth-themes-solar, plymouth-themes-spinfinity, plymouth-themes-spinner Breaks: libfontconfig1 (« 2.13.0-5~), plymouth-drm (« 0.9.0-6~) Replaces: plymouth-drm (« 0.9.0-6~), plymouth-themes-all, plymouth-themes-fade-in, plymouth-themes-glow, plymouth-themes-script, plymouth-themes-solar, plymouth-themes-spinfinity, plymouth-themes-spinner Filename: pool/universe/p/plymouth/plymouth-themes_0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 557324 MD5sum: a6410556e6b7a02c4ab3048046239f10 SHA1: 9c84e6fa64d304680587dfea3dface0c1cf61a2e SHA256: 373f9cc0d2de2e7e74650c5a470b25897daf7747b6350e83bc984e039c7f96c1 Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth Description-en: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - themes 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. Task: ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install plymouth-themes 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-themes package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
