How To Install fonts-roboto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-roboto-unhinted
fonts-roboto-unhinted 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.
This package contains Roboto font families which lack hinting.
There are three methods to install fonts-roboto-unhinted 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-unhinted 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-unhinted using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-roboto-unhinted
Install fonts-roboto-unhinted Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-roboto-unhinted using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-roboto-unhinted
Install fonts-roboto-unhinted 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-unhinted using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-roboto-unhinted
How To Uninstall fonts-roboto-unhinted on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-roboto-unhinted package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-roboto-unhinted
Uninstall fonts-roboto-unhinted And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-roboto-unhinted 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-unhinted
Remove fonts-roboto-unhinted Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-roboto-unhinted configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-roboto-unhinted
Remove fonts-roboto-unhinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-roboto-unhinted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-roboto-unhinted
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto-unhinted package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
