How To Install fonts-noto-hinted on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-hinted on Ubuntu 18.04. fonts-noto-hinted is No Tofu font families with large Unicode coverage (hinted)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-hinted on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is fonts-noto-hinted

fonts-noto-hinted is:

Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.

This package contains Noto font families with hinting:

  • Noto Kufi Arabic
  • Noto Naskh Arabic
  • Noto Naskh Arabic UI
  • Noto Sans
  • Noto Sans Adlam
  • Noto Sans Adlam Unjoined
  • Noto Sans Arabic
  • Noto Sans Arabic UI
  • Noto Sans Armenian
  • Noto Sans Avestan
  • Noto Sans Bamum
  • Noto Sans Bengali
  • Noto Sans Bengali UI
  • Noto Sans Buhid
  • Noto Sans Carian
  • Noto Sans Chakma
  • Noto Sans Cherokee
  • Noto Sans Cypriot
  • Noto Sans Deseret
  • Noto Sans Devanagari
  • Noto Sans Devanagari UI
  • Noto Sans Disp
  • Noto Sans Ethiopic
  • Noto Sans Georgian
  • Noto Sans Glagolitic
  • Noto Sans Gothic
  • Noto Sans Gujarati
  • Noto Sans Gujarati UI
  • Noto Sans Gurmukhi
  • Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI
  • Noto Sans Hebrew
  • Noto Sans Kannada
  • Noto Sans Kannada UI
  • Noto Sans Kayah Li
  • Noto Sans Khmer
  • Noto Sans Khmer UI
  • Noto Sans Lao
  • Noto Sans Lao UI
  • Noto Sans Lisu
  • Noto Sans Malayalam
  • Noto Sans Malayalam UI
  • Noto Sans Mandaic
  • Noto Sans Mono
  • Noto Sans Myanmar
  • Noto Sans Myanmar UI
  • Noto Sans N’Ko
  • Noto Sans Ol Chiki
  • Noto Sans Old Turkic
  • Noto Sans Oriya
  • Noto Sans Oriya UI
  • Noto Sans Osage
  • Noto Sans Osmanya
  • Noto Sans Shavian
  • Noto Sans Sinhala
  • Noto Sans Sinhala UI
  • Noto Sans Symbols
  • Noto Sans Tamil
  • Noto Sans Tamil UI
  • Noto Sans Telugu
  • Noto Sans Telugu UI
  • Noto Sans Thaana
  • Noto Sans Thai
  • Noto Sans Thai UI
  • Noto Sans Tibetan
  • Noto Sans Tifinagh
  • Noto Sans Vai
  • Noto Serif
  • Noto Serif Armenian
  • Noto Serif Bengali
  • Noto Serif Devanagari
  • Noto Serif Disp
  • Noto Serif Ethiopic
  • Noto Serif Georgian
  • Noto Serif Gujarati
  • Noto Serif Hebrew
  • Noto Serif Kannada
  • Noto Serif Khmer
  • Noto Serif Lao
  • Noto Serif Malayalam
  • Noto Serif Myanmar
  • Noto Serif Sinhala
  • Noto Serif Tamil
  • Noto Serif Telugu
  • Noto Serif Thai

The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 47 are covered, at least partly, across hinted and unhinted packages).

Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.

There are three methods to install fonts-noto-hinted on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-noto-hinted 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-noto-hinted using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-hinted

Install fonts-noto-hinted Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto-hinted using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-hinted

Install fonts-noto-hinted 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-noto-hinted using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-hinted

How To Uninstall fonts-noto-hinted on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the fonts-noto-hinted package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-hinted

Uninstall fonts-noto-hinted And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-noto-hinted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-hinted

Remove fonts-noto-hinted Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-noto-hinted configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-hinted

Remove fonts-noto-hinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto-hinted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-hinted

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-hinted package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.