How To Install fonts-pecita on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-pecita on Ubuntu 18.04. fonts-pecita is OpenType hand-written font whose letters are connected

Introduction

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

What is fonts-pecita

fonts-pecita is:

Pecita is a hand-written font that give a natural rendition.

It includes all of the full Language support for Afrikaans, Archaic Greek Letters, Baltic, Basic Greek, Basic Latin, Catalan, Central European, Chess Symbols, Dutch, Euro, Igbo Onwu, IPA, Latin Ligatures, Mathematical Operators, Macedonian, Pan African Latin, Pinyin, Polytonic Greek, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Western European.

It implements the OpenType features Contextual Alternates, Standard Ligatures, Randomize, Small Capitals, Subscript and Superscript.

There are three methods to install fonts-pecita 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-pecita 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-pecita using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-pecita

Install fonts-pecita Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-pecita

Install fonts-pecita 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-pecita using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-pecita

How To Uninstall fonts-pecita on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-pecita

Uninstall fonts-pecita And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-pecita

Remove fonts-pecita Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-pecita

Remove fonts-pecita configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-pecita

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Summary

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