How To Install fonts-noto-color-emoji on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-color-emoji on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-noto-color-emoji
fonts-noto-color-emoji is:
Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts.
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.
This package contains the color emoji font used on “stock” Android devices such as the Google Pixel. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: fonts-noto-color-emoji Architecture: all Version: 0~20200408-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: fonts Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 10241 Filename: pool/main/f/fonts-noto-color-emoji/fonts-noto-color-emoji_0~20200408-1_all.deb Size: 9697580 MD5sum: fcefc4dd08b3291b03aeb38314dbe2b8 SHA1: 1498d63ade49881853dc73469b070ef5fa68b6ee SHA256: 30c6f45282bd62b33d930c439c20f15f0ade68ffe97bc4a3e2778614682a318f Homepage: https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/ Description-en: color emoji font from Google Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts.
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.
This package contains the color emoji font used on “stock” Android devices such as the Google Pixel. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install fonts-noto-color-emoji on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-noto-color-emoji 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-noto-color-emoji using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-color-emoji
Install fonts-noto-color-emoji Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto-color-emoji using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-color-emoji
Install fonts-noto-color-emoji 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-noto-color-emoji using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-color-emoji
How To Uninstall fonts-noto-color-emoji on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-noto-color-emoji package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-color-emoji
Uninstall fonts-noto-color-emoji And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-noto-color-emoji and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-color-emoji
Remove fonts-noto-color-emoji Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-noto-color-emoji configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-color-emoji
Remove fonts-noto-color-emoji configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto-color-emoji configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-color-emoji
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-color-emoji package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
