How To Install fontconfig on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig on Ubuntu 22.04. fontconfig is generic font configuration library - support binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is fontconfig

fontconfig is:

Fontconfig is a font configuration and customization library, which does not depend on the X Window System. It is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.

Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular rasterization library on the application. The X-specific library ‘Xft’ uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.

This package contains a program to maintain the fontconfig cache (fc-cache), a sample program to list installed fonts (fc-list), a program to test the matching rules (fc-match) and a program to dump the binary cache files in string form (fc-cat). It no longer makes fonts managed by defoma available to fontconfig applications.

There are three methods to install fontconfig 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 fontconfig Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fontconfig using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fontconfig

Install fontconfig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fontconfig using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fontconfig

Install fontconfig 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 fontconfig using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fontconfig

How To Uninstall fontconfig on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the fontconfig package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fontconfig

Uninstall fontconfig And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fontconfig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fontconfig

Remove fontconfig Configurations and Data

To remove fontconfig configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fontconfig

Remove fontconfig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fontconfig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fontconfig

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.