How To Install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on Debian 12

Learn how to install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont is Material Design Icons DX

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on Debian 12.

What is fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont is:

Material Design icons are the official icon set from Google designed under the Material Design guidelines.

This package is a fork of the official upstream project and includes many fixes and improvements, such as missing icons. The package contains the Material Icons font in TrueType format, Embedded OpenType format and both versions of the Web Open Font Format. It also includes the Material Design icons Cascading Style Sheet.

There are three methods to install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on Debian 12. 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-material-design-icons-iconfont 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-material-design-icons-iconfont using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

Install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

Install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

How To Uninstall fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on Debian 12

To uninstall only the fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

Uninstall fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

Remove fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

Remove fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont

Dependencies

fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.