How To Install edubuntu-fonts on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install edubuntu-fonts
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is edubuntu-fonts
edubuntu-fonts is:
This metapackage will install a selection of packages that contain fonts that may be useful for education or desktop publishing.
There are three methods to install edubuntu-fonts
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 edubuntu-fonts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install edubuntu-fonts
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install edubuntu-fonts
Install edubuntu-fonts Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install edubuntu-fonts
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install edubuntu-fonts
Install edubuntu-fonts 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 edubuntu-fonts
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install edubuntu-fonts
How To Uninstall edubuntu-fonts on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the edubuntu-fonts
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove edubuntu-fonts
Uninstall edubuntu-fonts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall edubuntu-fonts
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove edubuntu-fonts
Remove edubuntu-fonts Configurations and Data
To remove edubuntu-fonts
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge edubuntu-fonts
Remove edubuntu-fonts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove edubuntu-fonts
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge edubuntu-fonts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install edubuntu-fonts
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.