How To Install fontmatrix on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontmatrix on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fontmatrix
fontmatrix is:
This is a manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout professionals along with others have felt necessary, but modernized with some new touches.
Fontmatrix has a concept of ’tagging’. This makes it really nice to group fonts and even sub-group them logically for use in a book for instance. It also has extensive gui support for showing all glyphs in a font, previews of sample text, variable sizing and also tells what kinds of advanced Open Type features are inside each font. These features have never been seen outside of a font editor. And not least, it creates a nice PDF catalogue of user’s fonts for printing or reference. In short, fontmatrix is a font manager for professionals, but is nice and user friendly.
There are three methods to install fontmatrix 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 fontmatrix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fontmatrix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fontmatrix
Install fontmatrix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fontmatrix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fontmatrix
Install fontmatrix 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 fontmatrix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fontmatrix
How To Uninstall fontmatrix on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fontmatrix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fontmatrix
Uninstall fontmatrix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fontmatrix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fontmatrix
Remove fontmatrix Configurations and Data
To remove fontmatrix configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fontmatrix
Remove fontmatrix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fontmatrix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fontmatrix
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontmatrix package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
