How To Install fonts-clear-sans on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-clear-sans
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-clear-sans
fonts-clear-sans is:
Clear Sans (also known as Intel Clear) is a versatile font for screen, print, and Web, designed with on-screen legibility in mind.
It’s used, among others, by Firefox on Android.
There are three methods to install fonts-clear-sans
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-clear-sans 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-clear-sans
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-clear-sans
Install fonts-clear-sans Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-clear-sans
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-clear-sans
Install fonts-clear-sans 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-clear-sans
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-clear-sans
How To Uninstall fonts-clear-sans on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-clear-sans
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-clear-sans
Uninstall fonts-clear-sans And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-clear-sans
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-clear-sans
Remove fonts-clear-sans Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-clear-sans
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-clear-sans
Remove fonts-clear-sans configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-clear-sans
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-clear-sans
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-clear-sans
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.