How To Install octicons on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octicons
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is octicons
octicons is:
GitHub’s “octicons” webfont, you can use over 100 icons with this web font.
See https://octicons.github.com/ for examples.
There are three methods to install octicons
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 octicons Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install octicons
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octicons
Install octicons Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octicons
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octicons
Install octicons 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 octicons
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octicons
How To Uninstall octicons on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the octicons
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octicons
Uninstall octicons And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octicons
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octicons
Remove octicons Configurations and Data
To remove octicons
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octicons
Remove octicons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octicons
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octicons
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octicons
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.