How To Install libttfautohint-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libttfautohint-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libttfautohint-dev
libttfautohint-dev is:
This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input, removes its bytecode instructions (if any), and returns a new font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType’s autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on platforms which don’t use FreeType.
This package provides ttfautohint library development files.
There are three methods to install libttfautohint-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libttfautohint-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libttfautohint-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libttfautohint-dev
Install libttfautohint-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libttfautohint-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libttfautohint-dev
Install libttfautohint-dev 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 libttfautohint-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libttfautohint-dev
How To Uninstall libttfautohint-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libttfautohint-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libttfautohint-dev
Uninstall libttfautohint-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libttfautohint-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libttfautohint-dev
Remove libttfautohint-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libttfautohint-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libttfautohint-dev
Remove libttfautohint-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libttfautohint-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libttfautohint-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libttfautohint-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.