How To Install fonts-mplus 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-mplus on Ubuntu.
What is fonts-mplus
fonts-mplus is:
This is a collection of sans serif fonts with different weights, including Japanese glyphs.
All fonts were completed with Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, and Latin Extended-A. And most of extended glyphs and symbols were prepared too. So the fonts are in conformity with ISO-8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, windows-1252, and T1 encoding.
In addition, proportional M+ P Type-1 and M+ P Type-2 fonts were completed with Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended Additional, and ISO-8859-5. And many Greek, Cyrillic, IPA Extensions glyphs, and symbols were expanded. Those additional glyphs are included in M+ C provisionality.
There are three methods to install fonts-mplus 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-mplus 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-mplus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-mplus
Install fonts-mplus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-mplus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-mplus
Install fonts-mplus 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-mplus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-mplus
How To Uninstall fonts-mplus on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fonts-mplus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-mplus
Uninstall fonts-mplus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-mplus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-mplus
Remove fonts-mplus Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-mplus configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-mplus
Remove fonts-mplus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-mplus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-mplus
Dependencies
fonts-mplus have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-mplus package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.