How To Install plymouth-label on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu.

What is `plymouth-label`

plymouth-label 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 label control, used by various graphical themes to render text.

There are three methods to install plymouth-label on Ubuntu. 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-label 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-label using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plymouth-label

Install plymouth-label Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plymouth-label

Install plymouth-label 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-label using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plymouth-label

How To Uninstall plymouth-label on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove plymouth-label

Uninstall plymouth-label And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plymouth-label and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plymouth-label

Remove plymouth-label Configurations and Data

To remove plymouth-label configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plymouth-label

Remove plymouth-label configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plymouth-label

Dependencies

plymouth-label have the following dependencies:

References

plymouth-label website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-label package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.