How To Install console-cyrillic on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install console-cyrillic on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is console-cyrillic
console-cyrillic is:
This package provides Cyrillic support on the Linux console with great number of customizations:
Various supported encodings: utf-8, cp1251, ibm866, iso-8859-5, koi8-r, koi8-u, mac-cyrillic, mik, pt154 and rk1048.
Belarusian, two Bulgarian, two Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, two Russian, Serbian and two Ukrainian keyboard mappings.
Many screen fonts.
Utilities: cyr, displayfont, dumppsf, makeacm, mkvgafont, raw2psf.
Two fonts for Dosemu.
There are three methods to install console-cyrillic 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 console-cyrillic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install console-cyrillic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install console-cyrillic
Install console-cyrillic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install console-cyrillic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install console-cyrillic
Install console-cyrillic 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 console-cyrillic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install console-cyrillic
How To Uninstall console-cyrillic on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the console-cyrillic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove console-cyrillic
Uninstall console-cyrillic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall console-cyrillic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove console-cyrillic
Remove console-cyrillic Configurations and Data
To remove console-cyrillic configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge console-cyrillic
Remove console-cyrillic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove console-cyrillic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge console-cyrillic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install console-cyrillic package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
