How To Install plymouth-x11 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-x11
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is plymouth-x11
plymouth-x11 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 X11 renderer for a graphical boot splash.
There are three methods to install plymouth-x11
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-x11 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-x11
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-x11
Install plymouth-x11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plymouth-x11
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plymouth-x11
Install plymouth-x11 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-x11
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-x11
How To Uninstall plymouth-x11 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the plymouth-x11
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth-x11
Uninstall plymouth-x11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plymouth-x11
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-x11
Remove plymouth-x11 Configurations and Data
To remove plymouth-x11
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-x11
Remove plymouth-x11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plymouth-x11
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-x11
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-x11
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.