How To Install fonts-creep2 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-creep2 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fonts-creep2
fonts-creep2 is:
The ‘creep’ font is a pretty compact font that is only 4 pixels wide. It is great for smaller screens, in order to be able to maintain high text density on screens reported as small as 11 inches in diagonal.
Box drawing
Creep has most of the basic box drawing characters implemented. Therefore creep usually works with most ncurses-type programs or with tmux window-splitting for example.
Powerline
Creep supports all the symbols needed for Lokaltog’s awesome powerline plugin for vim.
Sparklines
Creep has the necessary symbols for creating sparklines. This is cool for tools like rainbarf and others.
Better Haskell syntax
This font contains characters that can be used to pretty-print Haskell symbols, like ‘»=’.
Braille and Drawille
Creep now supports the full braille alphabet, which was an easy thing to do because of the clever braille encoding scheme. All of the braille characters are simply generated using a little script.
Why creep2?
This rework is a manually hand painted glyphs of the original ‘creep’ font that works with terminals and editors that do not support negative spacing. Every glyph fits into a 5x11px bounding box. This makes certain glyphs less recognizable compaired to the original font.
The original ‘creep’ font can be found at https://github.com/romeovs/creep
There are three methods to install fonts-creep2 on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fonts-creep2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-creep2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-creep2
Install fonts-creep2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-creep2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-creep2
Install fonts-creep2 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-creep2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-creep2
How To Uninstall fonts-creep2 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fonts-creep2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-creep2
Uninstall fonts-creep2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-creep2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-creep2
Remove fonts-creep2 Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-creep2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-creep2
Remove fonts-creep2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-creep2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-creep2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-creep2 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
