How To Install fonts-linex on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-linex
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fonts-linex
fonts-linex is:
These fonts include hand writing simulation typographies, ancient Greek and Roman typographies, the institutional fonts for use by the regional government of Extremadura and some other elegant fonts. This is the list of the included fonts:
- Abecedario: Small children handwritten simulation
- Elegante: Elegant handwritten simulation font
- BABEL Unicode: specifically designed to type Latin, Ancient greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runic, Ogham and Old English
- Alfa-Beta: Ancient Greek typography
- Emerita Latina: Roman typography
- API PHONÉTIQUE: Designed to phonetically transcript French texts
- IPA PHONETICS: Designed to phonetically transcript English texts
- Ellenike: Classical Greek encoding
- Jara: Institutional font used by the regional government of Extremadura
- Quercus: Institutional font used by the regional government of Extremadura
These fonts have been developed, donated and GPL licensed by Juan José Marcos for their use in the gnuLinEx project.
There are three methods to install fonts-linex
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-linex 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-linex
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-linex
Install fonts-linex Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-linex
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-linex
Install fonts-linex 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-linex
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-linex
How To Uninstall fonts-linex on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fonts-linex
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-linex
Uninstall fonts-linex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-linex
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-linex
Remove fonts-linex Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-linex
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-linex
Remove fonts-linex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-linex
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-linex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-linex
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.