[SOLVED] Another question about the updates which Canonical feeds us

taylorkh · 01-26-2011, 11:51 AM

I have a server running Ubuntu Server 10.04 - no gui. In todays updates I see the following listed

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plymouth graphical boot animation and logger - main package New version 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 Lucid
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text graphical boot animation and logger - ubuntu-logo theme New version 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 Lucid

Why would these be presented to a non-gui server install?

Ken

kilgoretrout · 01-26-2011, 03:22 PM

It's for a graphical boot splash/animations. I don't know why they pushed it through on a server OS but it shouldn't harm anything. If you don't have KMS(kernel mode setting) activated in your kernel, plymouth should revert to standard text mode

taylorkh · 01-26-2011, 04:03 PM

Thanks. I did a dpkg -s and found that plymouth is already installed on the non-gui server OS. I started a separate thread under the server forum to see if I could omit installing the plymouth updates. The answer seems to be no.

Ken