How To Install font-manager-common on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install font-manager-common on Ubuntu.

What is `font-manager-common`

font-manager-common is:

Font Manager is intended to provide a way for average users to easily manage desktop fonts, without having to resort to command line tools or editing configuration files by hand. While designed primarily with the GNOME Desktop Environment in mind, it should work well with other Gtk+ desktop environments.

This package provides the common shared files for font-viewer and font-manager packages.

There are three methods to install font-manager-common on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install font-manager-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install font-manager-common

Install font-manager-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install font-manager-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install font-manager-common

Install font-manager-common 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 font-manager-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install font-manager-common

How To Uninstall font-manager-common on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the font-manager-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove font-manager-common

Uninstall font-manager-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall font-manager-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove font-manager-common

Remove font-manager-common Configurations and Data

To remove font-manager-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge font-manager-common

Remove font-manager-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove font-manager-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge font-manager-common

Dependencies

font-manager-common have the following dependencies:

References

font-manager-common website

Summary

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