How To Install texlive-font-utils on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
3 minutes • 495 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-font-utils on Ubuntu.
What is texlive-font-utils
texlive-font-utils is:
Programs for conversion between font formats, testing fonts, virtual fonts, .gf and .pk manipulation, mft, fontinst, etc. Manipulating OpenType, TrueType, Type 1,and for manipulation of PostScript and other image formats.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
accfonts – Utilities to derive new fonts from existing ones
afm2pl – AFM font metrics to TeX pl converter.
albatross – Find fonts that contain a given glyph
dosepsbin – Deal with DOS binary EPS files
dvipsconfig – Collection of dvips PostScript headers
epstopdf – Convert EPS to PDF using Ghostscript
fontinst – Help with installing fonts for TeX and LaTeX
fontools – Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)
fontware – Tools for virtual font metrics
luafindfont – Search fonts in the LuaTeX font database
metatype1 – Generate Type 1 fonts from MetaPost
mf2pt1 – Convert stylized Metafont to PostScript Type 1
ps2eps – Produce Encapsulated PostScript from PostScript
ps2pk – Generate a PK font from an Adobe Type 1 font
ttfutils – convert TrueType to TFM and PK fonts
There are three methods to install texlive-font-utils 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 texlive-font-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-font-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-font-utils
Install texlive-font-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-font-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texlive-font-utils
Install texlive-font-utils 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 texlive-font-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texlive-font-utils
How To Uninstall texlive-font-utils on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the texlive-font-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texlive-font-utils
Uninstall texlive-font-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texlive-font-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-font-utils
Remove texlive-font-utils Configurations and Data
To remove texlive-font-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-font-utils
Remove texlive-font-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texlive-font-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-font-utils
Dependencies
texlive-font-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-font-utils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.