How To Install fonts-wine on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-wine
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-wine
fonts-wine is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
This package provides the fonts used by Wine.
There are three methods to install fonts-wine
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-wine 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-wine
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-wine
Install fonts-wine Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-wine
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-wine
Install fonts-wine 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-wine
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-wine
How To Uninstall fonts-wine on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-wine
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-wine
Uninstall fonts-wine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-wine
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-wine
Remove fonts-wine Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-wine
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-wine
Remove fonts-wine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-wine
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-wine
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-wine
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.