How To Install fonts-noto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-noto-unhinted
fonts-noto-unhinted is:
Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
This package contains Noto font families which lacks hinting:
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu
- Noto Sans AnatoHiero
- Noto Sans Balinese
- Noto Sans Batak
- Noto Sans Brahmi
- Noto Sans Buginese
- Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal
- Noto Sans Cham
- Noto Sans Coptic
- Noto Sans Cuneiform
- Noto Sans EgyptHiero
- Noto Sans Hanunoo
- Noto Sans ImpAramaic
- Noto Sans InsPahlavi
- Noto Sans InsParthi
- Noto Sans Javanese
- Noto Sans Kaithi
- Noto Sans Kharoshthi
- Noto Sans Lepcha
- Noto Sans Limbu
- Noto Sans Linear B
- Noto Sans Lycian
- Noto Sans Lydian
- Noto Sans Meetei Mayek
- Noto Sans Mongolian
- Noto Sans NewTaiLue
- Noto Sans Ogham
- Noto Sans Old Italic
- Noto Sans OldPersian
- Noto Sans OldSouArab
- Noto Sans Phags Pa
- Noto Sans Phoenician
- Noto Sans Rejang
- Noto Sans Runic
- Noto Sans Samaritan
- Noto Sans Saurashtra
- Noto Sans Sundanese
- Noto Sans Syloti Nagri
- Noto Sans Symbols2
- Noto Sans Syriac Eastern
- Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela
- Noto Sans Syriac Western
- Noto Sans Tagalog
- Noto Sans Tagbanwa
- Noto Sans Tai Le
- Noto Sans Tai Tham
- Noto Sans Tai Viet
- Noto Sans Ugaritic
- Noto Sans Yi
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 47 are covered, at least partly, across hinted and unhinted packages).
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.
There are three methods to install fonts-noto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-unhinted 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-unhinted using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-unhinted
Install fonts-noto-unhinted Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto-unhinted using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-unhinted
Install fonts-noto-unhinted 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-unhinted using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-unhinted
How To Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-noto-unhinted package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-unhinted
Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-unhinted
Remove fonts-noto-unhinted Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-noto-unhinted configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-unhinted
Remove fonts-noto-unhinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto-unhinted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-unhinted
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
