How to uninstall plymouth?
hepita@Hepitowo:~$ sudo apt-get purge plymouth
Following packages will be REMOVED:
lightdm* mountall* plymouth* plymouth-label* plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo*
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text* ubuntu-desktop* unity* unity-greeter*
unity-tweak-tool* upstart*
Any possible way to remove Plymouth in Ubuntu 16.04? After installing nvidia drivers it is displaying at wrong resolution (and starts long time after boot, a few seconds before display manager) and I decided to remove it. Why Plymouth is so important for package manager?
Solution 1:
Plymouth is well-integrated into Ubuntu, and removing it could get difficult. Fortunately, you don't need to remove plymouth in order to disable it; there's a GRUB boot option called splash
that can toggle the graphical boot screen on or off.
To disable graphical boot in Ubuntu, you need to open your /etc/default/grub file for editing, with superuser privileges. Under regular Ubuntu, this can be accomplished with:
gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
(on a command-line-only system or any other Ubuntu variant, open a terminal and type sudo nano /etc/default/grub
instead.)
Locate the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
line in /etc/default/grub , it might look like:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Then remove the splash
from this line, so it looks like the following:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
Save the file and exit the editor.
Finally, to apply your changes, open a terminal and run:
sudo update-grub
Now your system should boot in text mode, without the graphical boot screen.