How To Install fonts-roboto on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto on Ubuntu 18.04. fonts-roboto is metapackage to pull in Roboto fonts

Introduction

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

What is fonts-roboto

fonts-roboto is:

Roboto is Google’s signature family of fonts, the default font in Android and ChromeOS and the recommended font for Google’s visual language, Material Design.

Roboto supports all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters in Unicode 7.0 as well as currency symbol for the Georgian lari, to be published in Unicode 8.0.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-roboto

Install fonts-roboto Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-roboto

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-roboto

How To Uninstall fonts-roboto on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-roboto

Uninstall fonts-roboto And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-roboto

Remove fonts-roboto Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-roboto

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

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

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

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Summary

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