How to Fix Usplash in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)

At the moment if you change your usplash theme, it just does not change.To fix this use the following procedure.



sudo apt-get install libusplash-dev

Then go to your theme folder (In this example we are using this and the filenames used below is for this one )

make

sudo cp usplash-theme-wideubuntu.so /usr/lib/usplash

sudo rm /etc/alternatives/usplash-artwork.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/usplash/usplash-theme-wideubuntu.so /etc/alternatives/usplash-artwork.so

sudo update-initramfs -u

sudo update-grub

That's it now you should be having your new usplash.