How To Install fonts-indic on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-indic
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fonts-indic
fonts-indic is:
This metapackage merely depends on the various free Indian language font packages available in Debian. Use this if you want fonts for every Indian language.
The following metapackages will be pulled down as dependency which will in turn pull down real font packages.
- fonts-beng
- fonts-deva
- fonts-gujr
- fonts-guru
- fonts-knda
- fonts-mlym
- fonts-orya
- fonts-pagul
- fonts-taml
- fonts-telu
There are three methods to install fonts-indic
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-indic 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-indic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-indic
Install fonts-indic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-indic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-indic
Install fonts-indic 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-indic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-indic
How To Uninstall fonts-indic on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fonts-indic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-indic
Uninstall fonts-indic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-indic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-indic
Remove fonts-indic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-indic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-indic
Remove fonts-indic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-indic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-indic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-indic
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.