How To Install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont 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-materialdesignicons-webfont on Ubuntu.
What is fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont is:
Material Design Icons’ growing icon collection allows designers and developers targeting various platforms to download icons in the format, color and size they need for any project. This font contains icons form this collection.
This package also provides Css, Scss and LESS files to use webfonts from this package.
There are three methods to install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont 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-materialdesignicons-webfont 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-materialdesignicons-webfont using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont 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-materialdesignicons-webfont using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
How To Uninstall fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Uninstall fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Dependencies
fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.