How To Install gir1.2-pango-1.0 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 gir1.2-pango-1.0 on Ubuntu.
What is gir1.2-pango-1.0
gir1.2-pango-1.0 is:
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.0.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:
- Core X windowing system fonts
- Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
- Native fonts on Microsoft backends
This package can be used by other packages using the GIRepository format to generate dynamic bindings.
There are three methods to install gir1.2-pango-1.0 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 gir1.2-pango-1.0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-pango-1.0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-pango-1.0
Install gir1.2-pango-1.0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-pango-1.0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gir1.2-pango-1.0
Install gir1.2-pango-1.0 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 gir1.2-pango-1.0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-pango-1.0
How To Uninstall gir1.2-pango-1.0 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the gir1.2-pango-1.0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-pango-1.0
Uninstall gir1.2-pango-1.0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gir1.2-pango-1.0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-pango-1.0
Remove gir1.2-pango-1.0 Configurations and Data
To remove gir1.2-pango-1.0 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-pango-1.0
Remove gir1.2-pango-1.0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-pango-1.0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-pango-1.0
Dependencies
gir1.2-pango-1.0 have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-freedesktop
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libpangoxft-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-pango-1.0 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.