How To Install hershey-fonts-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hershey-fonts-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hershey-fonts-data
hershey-fonts-data is:
The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed circa 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey.
This package includes Latin, Greek, Cyrilic, Japanese, and various symbol glyph sets encoded as .jhf format Hershey font files.
There are three methods to install hershey-fonts-data 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 hershey-fonts-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hershey-fonts-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hershey-fonts-data
Install hershey-fonts-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hershey-fonts-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hershey-fonts-data
Install hershey-fonts-data 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 hershey-fonts-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hershey-fonts-data
How To Uninstall hershey-fonts-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hershey-fonts-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hershey-fonts-data
Uninstall hershey-fonts-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hershey-fonts-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hershey-fonts-data
Remove hershey-fonts-data Configurations and Data
To remove hershey-fonts-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hershey-fonts-data
Remove hershey-fonts-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hershey-fonts-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hershey-fonts-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hershey-fonts-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
