plymouth software package provides graphical boot animation and logger - main package, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install plymouth
plymouth is installed in your system.
Make ensure the plymouth package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep plymouth *
You will get with plymouth package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | plymouth |
| Version | 0.8.8-0ubuntu17 |
| Description | graphical boot animation and logger - main package |
| Sub Section | x11 |