How To Install fonts-droid-fallback on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-droid-fallback on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-droid-fallback
fonts-droid-fallback is:
This package provides DroidSans Fallback variants, Fallback and FallbackFull.
Each contains extensive character set coverage including Western Europe, Eastern/Central Europe, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish support. The Droid Sans regular font also includes support for Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Thai.
Droid was designed by Ascender’s Steve Matteson and hinted to provide optimal quality for screen text.
There are three methods to install fonts-droid-fallback 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-droid-fallback 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-droid-fallback using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-droid-fallback
Install fonts-droid-fallback Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-droid-fallback using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-droid-fallback
Install fonts-droid-fallback 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-droid-fallback using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-droid-fallback
How To Uninstall fonts-droid-fallback on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-droid-fallback package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-droid-fallback
Uninstall fonts-droid-fallback And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-droid-fallback and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-droid-fallback
Remove fonts-droid-fallback Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-droid-fallback configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-droid-fallback
Remove fonts-droid-fallback configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-droid-fallback configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-droid-fallback
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-droid-fallback package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.