How To Install fonts-mathematica on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-mathematica
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-mathematica
fonts-mathematica is:
This package downloads Mathematica fonts from http://support.wolfram.com/ and installs them, because the license prohibits their distribution. Please note that it may fail if the web site no longer offers them for download.
Only TTF fonts are available in this version.
There are three methods to install fonts-mathematica
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-mathematica 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-mathematica
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-mathematica
Install fonts-mathematica Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-mathematica
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-mathematica
Install fonts-mathematica 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-mathematica
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-mathematica
How To Uninstall fonts-mathematica on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-mathematica
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-mathematica
Uninstall fonts-mathematica And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-mathematica
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-mathematica
Remove fonts-mathematica Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-mathematica
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-mathematica
Remove fonts-mathematica configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-mathematica
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-mathematica
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-mathematica
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.