How To Install gftools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gftools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gftools
gftools is:
This project contains tools used for working with the Google Fonts collection, plus Google Fonts Glyph Set Documentation in the /encodings subdirectory. While these tools are primarily intended for contributors to the Google Fonts project, anyone who works with fonts could find them useful.
There are three methods to install gftools
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 gftools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gftools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gftools
Install gftools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gftools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gftools
Install gftools 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 gftools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gftools
How To Uninstall gftools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gftools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gftools
Uninstall gftools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gftools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gftools
Remove gftools Configurations and Data
To remove gftools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gftools
Remove gftools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gftools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gftools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gftools
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.