How To Install open-font-design-toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-font-design-toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is open-font-design-toolkit
open-font-design-toolkit is:
This package provides all tools needed to design, adapt, improve and hack on open fonts, including recommendations for the ones needed to do font design in a collaborative manner using VCS (version control systems).
A growing number of high-quality fonts are released under the Open Font License (or similar recognized font-specific licenses) to allow distributing, modifying, improving and branching by others including adding new glyphs and smart behaviours, extending the Unicode coverage, improving hinting and allowing new languages to be supported on the free desktop and, of course, fixing bugs.
The various OFL’ed fonts are listed at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts and at http://unifont.org/fontguide
Further resources, tools and documentation about font design, writing systems implementations and packaging can be found on these website from the open font community:
- the Unifont.org fontguide: http://unifont.org
- the Debian fonts task force website: https://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org
- the Ubuntu fonts team website: https://launchpad.net/~fonts
- the Fedora font SIG : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fonts_SIG
- SIL’s Non-Roman Script Initiative website: http://scripts.sil.org
- the Open Font Library: https://fontlibrary.org
- the ScriptSource community website: http://scriptsource.org
There are three methods to install open-font-design-toolkit 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 open-font-design-toolkit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install open-font-design-toolkit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install open-font-design-toolkit
Install open-font-design-toolkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install open-font-design-toolkit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install open-font-design-toolkit
Install open-font-design-toolkit 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 open-font-design-toolkit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install open-font-design-toolkit
How To Uninstall open-font-design-toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the open-font-design-toolkit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove open-font-design-toolkit
Uninstall open-font-design-toolkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall open-font-design-toolkit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove open-font-design-toolkit
Remove open-font-design-toolkit Configurations and Data
To remove open-font-design-toolkit configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge open-font-design-toolkit
Remove open-font-design-toolkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove open-font-design-toolkit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge open-font-design-toolkit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-font-design-toolkit package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
