Install 80+ Android Boot Animation Themes in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch

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Boring with default boot or shutdown animation screen? Here are 80+ themes from Android Bootanimations

Most Linux handle the startup, shutdown, and reboot animations via Plymouth. It supports themes. And, here’s a free and open-source project that contains 80+ plymouth themes, ported from android bootanimation from here.

This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install and apply one of them one by one in your Linux PC/laptop.

First, here are few preview of the themes. For more previews, see in GitHub page.

Step 1: Download the Theme files

First of all, open a terminal window from your system application launcher or ‘Activities’ overivew.

Open terminal

Then, run the command below to clone the source from Github:

git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/plymouth-themes.git

If git command not found, install it via sudo apt install git for Debian/Ubuntu, sudo dnf install git for Fedora, or sudo pacman -S git for Arch Linux.

Once you cloned the source (or downloaded from Github page, see the link above), you got a ‘plymouth-themes’ folder with all the 80 themes under ‘pack_1, pack_2, pack_3, pack_4’ sub-folders.

Step 2: Install all the themes to correct location

To apply the themes, user need to first put the theme folders into “/usr/share/plymouth/themes” directory.

You can either put one of your desired theme into that directory by running commands:

  1. First, in terminal navigate to the the source folder: 
    cd ~/plymouth-themes/

    If you saved it in ‘Downloads’ folder, use cd ~/Downloads/plymouth-themes instead. Or, right-click on that folder in your file manager and select “Open in Terminal“

  2. Then, move one of the themes into /usr/share/plymouth/themes via command: 
    sudo mv pack_1/THEME_NAME /usr/share/plymouth/themes

    Change pack_1 and THEME_NAME accordingly.

To move all the 80 themes into /usr/share/plymouth/themes, just copy and run the code below as single command.

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