How To Install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
- fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont website
- fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont on packages.ubuntu.com
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.