How To Install fonts-powerline 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-powerline on Ubuntu.
What is fonts-powerline
fonts-powerline is:
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
This package contains the font which provides symbols used by Powerline. It also contains the fontconfig settings that makes these symbols available as part of other installed fonts.
There are three methods to install fonts-powerline 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-powerline 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-powerline using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-powerline
Install fonts-powerline Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-powerline using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-powerline
Install fonts-powerline 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-powerline using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-powerline
How To Uninstall fonts-powerline on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fonts-powerline package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-powerline
Uninstall fonts-powerline And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-powerline and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-powerline
Remove fonts-powerline Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-powerline configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-powerline
Remove fonts-powerline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-powerline configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-powerline
Dependencies
fonts-powerline have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-powerline package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.