How To Install fonts-tibetan-machine on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-tibetan-machine on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-tibetan-machine
fonts-tibetan-machine is:
This package provides the Tibetan Machine Unicode font from the THDL project (http://www.thdl.org/). The font contains around 5,100 glyphs and can generate over 20,000 different combinations with full support for the Sanskrit combinations found in ‘chos skad’ texts.
There are three methods to install fonts-tibetan-machine 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-tibetan-machine 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-tibetan-machine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-tibetan-machine
Install fonts-tibetan-machine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-tibetan-machine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-tibetan-machine
Install fonts-tibetan-machine 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-tibetan-machine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-tibetan-machine
How To Uninstall fonts-tibetan-machine on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-tibetan-machine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-tibetan-machine
Uninstall fonts-tibetan-machine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-tibetan-machine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-tibetan-machine
Remove fonts-tibetan-machine Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-tibetan-machine configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-tibetan-machine
Remove fonts-tibetan-machine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-tibetan-machine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-tibetan-machine
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-tibetan-machine package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
