How To Install texlive-fonts-extra-links on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fonts-extra-links
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is texlive-fonts-extra-links
texlive-fonts-extra-links is:
This package ships links to all the fonts that are originally in TeX Live, collection fonts-extra, but are not shipped in the Debian package texlive-fonts-extra due to availability in separate packages. . For documents searching these fonts by file name instead of using fontconfig lookups, the font files need to be linked into the TEXMF tree of TeX Live. This package ships these links and depends on all the font packages required.
There are three methods to install texlive-fonts-extra-links
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 texlive-fonts-extra-links Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-fonts-extra-links
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-fonts-extra-links
Install texlive-fonts-extra-links Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-fonts-extra-links
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texlive-fonts-extra-links
Install texlive-fonts-extra-links 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 texlive-fonts-extra-links
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texlive-fonts-extra-links
How To Uninstall texlive-fonts-extra-links on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the texlive-fonts-extra-links
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texlive-fonts-extra-links
Uninstall texlive-fonts-extra-links And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texlive-fonts-extra-links
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-fonts-extra-links
Remove texlive-fonts-extra-links Configurations and Data
To remove texlive-fonts-extra-links
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-fonts-extra-links
Remove texlive-fonts-extra-links configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texlive-fonts-extra-links
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-fonts-extra-links
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fonts-extra-links
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.