How To Install fonts-ricty-diminished on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ricty-diminished on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-ricty-diminished
fonts-ricty-diminished is:
Ricty Diminished is a font based on Inconsolata and Circle M+ 1m, optimized for the programming usage.
- Use Inconsolata for the Latin character glyphs and “Circle M+ 1m” font for other glyphs.
- Adjust the width of full-width and normal-width character glyphs to 2:1 ratio exactly full and half.
- Design the comma, period, colon, semicolon and bracket character glyphs to differentiate each other clearly to prevent confusions.
- Design the high visibility p-sound sign attached Kana character glyphs.
- Design the En-dash and Em-dash glyphs show them as the broken line to prevent input failures for LaTeX.
- It shows Em-size space as “box” character because Em-size space often. prevents debugging since users usually miss it. With Ricty Diminished font, users can find and fix it easily.
There are three methods to install fonts-ricty-diminished 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 fonts-ricty-diminished Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-ricty-diminished using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-ricty-diminished
Install fonts-ricty-diminished Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-ricty-diminished using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-ricty-diminished
Install fonts-ricty-diminished 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 fonts-ricty-diminished using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-ricty-diminished
How To Uninstall fonts-ricty-diminished on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-ricty-diminished package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-ricty-diminished
Uninstall fonts-ricty-diminished And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-ricty-diminished and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-ricty-diminished
Remove fonts-ricty-diminished Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-ricty-diminished configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-ricty-diminished
Remove fonts-ricty-diminished configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-ricty-diminished configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-ricty-diminished
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ricty-diminished package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
