How To Install fonts-noto on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-noto
fonts-noto is:
Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
Use this package if you want all Noto fonts.
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 67 are covered, at least partly.
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters. Task: ubuntukylin-desktop
Package: fonts-noto Architecture: all Version: 20200323-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/fonts Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 35 Depends: fonts-noto-core Recommends: fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-noto-cjk-extra, fonts-noto-color-emoji, fonts-noto-extra, fonts-noto-mono, fonts-noto-ui-core, fonts-noto-ui-extra, fonts-noto-unhinted Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-noto/fonts-noto_20200323-1_all.deb Size: 17752 MD5sum: 4975690df833aa074a42b333e8bd8429 SHA1: f794efd544ad61a4d5a519c09b88d05f2ead8d9a SHA256: 8c58a2115f1adc6af584bd2b23d612f55c6ce56937a1b69887f84a7b8fa42ce0 Homepage: https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Description-en: metapackage to pull in all Noto fonts Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
Use this package if you want all Noto fonts.
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 67 are covered, at least partly.
Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “�” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters. Task: ubuntukylin-desktop
There are three methods to install fonts-noto
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-noto 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto
Install fonts-noto Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-noto
Install fonts-noto 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto
How To Uninstall fonts-noto on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-noto
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto
Uninstall fonts-noto And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-noto
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto
Remove fonts-noto Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-noto
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto
Remove fonts-noto configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.