How To Install fonts-circos-symbols on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-circos-symbols on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-circos-symbols
fonts-circos-symbols is:
Circos visualizes data in a circular layout — ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions, and creating highly informative publication-quality graphics.
This package provides a set of fonts used by default with Circos.
There are three methods to install fonts-circos-symbols 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-circos-symbols 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-circos-symbols using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-circos-symbols
Install fonts-circos-symbols Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-circos-symbols using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-circos-symbols
Install fonts-circos-symbols 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-circos-symbols using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-circos-symbols
How To Uninstall fonts-circos-symbols on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-circos-symbols package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-circos-symbols
Uninstall fonts-circos-symbols And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-circos-symbols and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-circos-symbols
Remove fonts-circos-symbols Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-circos-symbols configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-circos-symbols
Remove fonts-circos-symbols configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-circos-symbols configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-circos-symbols
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-circos-symbols package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.