How To Install plymouth-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. plymouth-devel.x86_64 is Libraries and headers for writing Plymouth splash plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is plymouth-devel.x86_64

This package contains the libply and libplybootsplash libraries and headers needed to develop 3rd party splash plugins for Plymouth.

We can use yum to install plymouth-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plymouth-devel.x86_64.

Install plymouth-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plymouth-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plymouth-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall plymouth-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the plymouth-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove plymouth-devel.x86_64

plymouth-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/plymouth-1
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-boot-client
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-boot-client/ply-boot-client.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-boot-client/ply-boot-protocol.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-boot-splash-plugin.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-boot-splash.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-device-manager.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-keyboard.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-pixel-buffer.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-pixel-display.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-renderer-plugin.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-renderer.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-terminal.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-text-display.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-text-progress-bar.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-core/ply-text-step-bar.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-animation.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-entry.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-image.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-label-plugin.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-label.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-progress-animation.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-progress-bar.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply-splash-graphics/ply-throbber.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-array.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-bitarray.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-buffer.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-command-parser.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-event-loop.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-hashtable.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-key-file.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-list.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-logger.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-progress.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-rectangle.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-region.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-terminal-session.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-trigger.h
/usr/include/plymouth-1/ply/ply-utils.h
/usr/lib64/libply-boot-client.so
/usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so
/usr/lib64/libply-splash-graphics.so
/usr/lib64/libply.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ply-boot-client.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ply-splash-core.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ply-splash-graphics.pc
/usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers/x11.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plymouth-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.