How To Install xfonts-efont-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-efont-unicode
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is xfonts-efont-unicode
xfonts-efont-unicode is:
/efont/ is an X BDF font package for 10, 12, 14, 16, and 24 pixels which are encoded in Unicode. Though they are still under development, they contain various scripts including Latin, IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai, Lao, Georgian, Runic, Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul Syllables, and part of Arabic, Bopomofo, CJK Ideogram, and various symbols.
This package contains normal (non-italic, medium) fonts only. xfonts-efont-unicode-ib package is available for italic and bold fonts.
There are three methods to install xfonts-efont-unicode
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 xfonts-efont-unicode Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-efont-unicode
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-efont-unicode
Install xfonts-efont-unicode Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-efont-unicode
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xfonts-efont-unicode
Install xfonts-efont-unicode 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 xfonts-efont-unicode
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xfonts-efont-unicode
How To Uninstall xfonts-efont-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the xfonts-efont-unicode
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xfonts-efont-unicode
Uninstall xfonts-efont-unicode And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xfonts-efont-unicode
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfonts-efont-unicode
Remove xfonts-efont-unicode Configurations and Data
To remove xfonts-efont-unicode
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xfonts-efont-unicode
Remove xfonts-efont-unicode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xfonts-efont-unicode
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfonts-efont-unicode
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-efont-unicode
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.