How To Install fonts-breip on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-breip on Ubuntu 18.04. fonts-breip is informal handwriting font

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-breip on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is fonts-breip

fonts-breip is:

This package provides an informal handwriting font based on the handwrite of a friend of Adam (the author of this).

Quoting the author: “It’s hard to describe”, but in short it is a freestyle sans serif kind of font.

There are three methods to install fonts-breip 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-breip 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-breip using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-breip

Install fonts-breip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-breip using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-breip

Install fonts-breip 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-breip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-breip

How To Uninstall fonts-breip on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the fonts-breip package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-breip

Uninstall fonts-breip And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-breip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-breip

Remove fonts-breip Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-breip configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-breip

Remove fonts-breip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-breip configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-breip

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-breip package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.