How To Install fonts-font-awesome 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 fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu.
What is fonts-font-awesome
fonts-font-awesome is:
This font contains about 249 various icon glyphs. Glyphs are designed as scalable vector graphics hence display very well at any screen size. This font was basically designed to be used with the Twitter bootstrap library but can be used in other places also.
This package also provides Sass and LESS files to use webfonts from this package.
Please note that this package provides Font Awesome 4 (not Font Awesome 5 or Font Awesome 6 which are different fonts with different licensing).
There are three methods to install fonts-font-awesome 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 fonts-font-awesome 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-font-awesome using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-font-awesome
Install fonts-font-awesome Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-font-awesome using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-font-awesome
Install fonts-font-awesome 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-font-awesome using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-font-awesome
How To Uninstall fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fonts-font-awesome package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-font-awesome
Uninstall fonts-font-awesome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-font-awesome and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-font-awesome
Remove fonts-font-awesome Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-font-awesome configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-font-awesome
Remove fonts-font-awesome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-font-awesome configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-font-awesome
Dependencies
fonts-font-awesome have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-font-awesome package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.