How To Install fonts-ibm-plex on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ibm-plex
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-ibm-plex
fonts-ibm-plex is:
IBM Plex is an extensive font family developed by IBM. It comes in four subfamilies (Sans, Sans Condensed, Mono and Serif) and 8 weights (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Text, Medium, Semibold, Bold), with true italics to complement them. A variable-weight counterpart of IBM Plex Sans is also available.
The four basic subfamilies support most of the languages using the Latin alphabet (including Vietnamese), the Cyrillic writing system and monotonic Greek. Hebrew (including cantillation marks), Thai (both looped and loopless), Devanagari and Arabic are supported as separate typefaces.
There is also support for common mathematical and currency symbols as well as ligatures and stylistic alternates.
This package contains the TrueType (CFF) flavored OpenType fonts and the WOFF/WOFF2 web fonts.
There are three methods to install fonts-ibm-plex
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-ibm-plex 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-ibm-plex
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-ibm-plex
Install fonts-ibm-plex Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-ibm-plex
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-ibm-plex
Install fonts-ibm-plex 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-ibm-plex
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-ibm-plex
How To Uninstall fonts-ibm-plex on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-ibm-plex
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-ibm-plex
Uninstall fonts-ibm-plex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-ibm-plex
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-ibm-plex
Remove fonts-ibm-plex Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-ibm-plex
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-ibm-plex
Remove fonts-ibm-plex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-ibm-plex
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-ibm-plex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ibm-plex
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.