How To Install fonts-atarismall on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-atarismall on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-atarismall
fonts-atarismall is:
This is named atari small because it was designed for a terminal emulator written for an Atari 800. It only had a 320 pixel wide display, but an 80 column terminal was wanted, hence there is this font. This is somewhat cleaned up from the original version. It has only a one pixel descent to maximize pixels available to the main body of each character.
There are three methods to install fonts-atarismall 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-atarismall 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-atarismall using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-atarismall
Install fonts-atarismall Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-atarismall using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-atarismall
Install fonts-atarismall 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-atarismall using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-atarismall
How To Uninstall fonts-atarismall on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-atarismall package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-atarismall
Uninstall fonts-atarismall And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-atarismall and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-atarismall
Remove fonts-atarismall Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-atarismall configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-atarismall
Remove fonts-atarismall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-atarismall configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-atarismall
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-atarismall package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.