How To Install fonts-noto-unhinted on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Kufi Arabic Black
- Noto Kufi Arabic Extra Bold
- Noto Kufi Arabic Extra Light
- Noto Kufi Arabic Light
- Noto Kufi Arabic Thin
- Noto Sans Gunjala Gondi
- Noto Sans Lisu
- Noto Sans Lisu Medium
- Noto Sans Lisu Semi Bold
- Noto Sans Masaram Gondi
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki Medium
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki Semibold
- Noto Sans Sogdian
- Noto Sans Soyombo
- Noto Sans Wancho
- Noto Sans Zanabazar
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 67 are covered, at least partly.
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters. Task: kubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
Package: fonts-noto-unhinted Architecture: all Version: 20200323-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/fonts Source: fonts-noto Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 978 Enhances: fonts-noto-hinted Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-noto/fonts-noto-unhinted_20200323-1_all.deb Size: 253080 MD5sum: 469ce27cced68ae916895978b58ff156 SHA1: 7c2619c6e7f6a05b359fc8737b3f67f81ca61f10 SHA256: 8e31e3aa634979efdea0a799eed2e9f38ca0222f7e20eef1d959697f6b31a081 Homepage: https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Description-en: “No Tofu” font families with large Unicode coverage (unhinted) Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
This package contains Noto font families which lacks hinting:
- Noto Kufi Arabic Black
- Noto Kufi Arabic Extra Bold
- Noto Kufi Arabic Extra Light
- Noto Kufi Arabic Light
- Noto Kufi Arabic Thin
- Noto Sans Gunjala Gondi
- Noto Sans Lisu
- Noto Sans Lisu Medium
- Noto Sans Lisu Semi Bold
- Noto Sans Masaram Gondi
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki Medium
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki Semibold
- Noto Sans Sogdian
- Noto Sans Soyombo
- Noto Sans Wancho
- Noto Sans Zanabazar
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 67 are covered, at least partly.
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters. Task: kubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
There are three methods to install fonts-noto-unhinted 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-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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
