Information about the package, plymouth, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The plymouth package is designed for, Graphical Boot Animation and Logger.
Package Name:
plymouth
Summary:
Graphical Boot Animation and Logger
Description:
Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing after boot.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.8.3
Release:
29.el6.centos
Size:
189 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the plymouth package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install plymouth
This command will install plymouth on the server.
yum remove plymouth
This command will un-install plymouth on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plymouth, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove plymouth
This command will un-install plymouth on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove plymouth when using the -y flag.
yum update plymouth
This command will update plymouth to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plymouth, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update plymouth
This command will update plymouth to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove plymouth when using the -y flag.
yum info plymouth
This command will show you core information about the plymouth package.
yum deplist plymouth
This command will show you the dependencies for plymouth. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update plymouth
This command will check if there is an update waiting on plymouth. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.