How To Install emacs-intl-fonts on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-intl-fonts on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is emacs-intl-fonts
emacs-intl-fonts is:
This package includes BDF fonts to print Amharic, Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese text as bit-mapped PostScript. To see these languages in X, you can use the xfonts-intl-* packages (among others).
There are three methods to install emacs-intl-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 emacs-intl-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 emacs-intl-fonts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emacs-intl-fonts
Install emacs-intl-fonts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs-intl-fonts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emacs-intl-fonts
Install emacs-intl-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 emacs-intl-fonts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emacs-intl-fonts
How To Uninstall emacs-intl-fonts on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the emacs-intl-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emacs-intl-fonts
Uninstall emacs-intl-fonts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emacs-intl-fonts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs-intl-fonts
Remove emacs-intl-fonts Configurations and Data
To remove emacs-intl-fonts configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emacs-intl-fonts
Remove emacs-intl-fonts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emacs-intl-fonts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs-intl-fonts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-intl-fonts package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
