How To Install freetype2-demos on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype2-demos on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freetype2-demos
freetype2-demos is:
The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free, portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography. They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small, efficient and ubiquitous products.
This package contains some demonstration programs and utilities that showcase the features of the FreeType 2 font engine.
Package: freetype2-demos Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.10.1-2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Source: freetype Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Hugh McMaster [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 989 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libfreetype6 (>= 2.10.1), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libx11-6 Filename: pool/universe/f/freetype/freetype2-demos_2.10.1-2_amd64.deb Size: 149380 MD5sum: 3bdcef08d017054d0166c023f7eccd6f SHA1: b4c28425f442b98f96d3e303e064855195f7af04 SHA256: 72ae4429a468ce7aa6d051e47c51009c25ac023692cf987fce53a7171bb6edf4 Homepage: https://www.freetype.org Description-en: FreeType 2 demonstration programs The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free, portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography. They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small, efficient and ubiquitous products.
This package contains some demonstration programs and utilities that showcase the features of the FreeType 2 font engine.
There are three methods to install freetype2-demos 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 freetype2-demos Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freetype2-demos using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freetype2-demos
Install freetype2-demos Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freetype2-demos using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freetype2-demos
Install freetype2-demos 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 freetype2-demos using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freetype2-demos
How To Uninstall freetype2-demos on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freetype2-demos package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freetype2-demos
Uninstall freetype2-demos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freetype2-demos and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freetype2-demos
Remove freetype2-demos Configurations and Data
To remove freetype2-demos configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freetype2-demos
Remove freetype2-demos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freetype2-demos configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freetype2-demos
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype2-demos package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
