How To Install fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-font-awesome
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-font-awesome
fonts-font-awesome is:
This font contains about 249 various icon glyphs. Glyphs are designed as scalable vector graphics hence display very well at any screen size. This font was basically designed to be used with the Twitter bootstrap library but can be used in other places also.
This package also provides Sass and LESS files to use webfonts from this package.
There are three methods to install fonts-font-awesome
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-font-awesome 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-font-awesome
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-font-awesome
Install fonts-font-awesome Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-font-awesome
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-font-awesome
Install fonts-font-awesome 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-font-awesome
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-font-awesome
How To Uninstall fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-font-awesome
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-font-awesome
Uninstall fonts-font-awesome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-font-awesome
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-font-awesome
Remove fonts-font-awesome Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-font-awesome
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-font-awesome
Remove fonts-font-awesome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-font-awesome
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-font-awesome
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-font-awesome
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.