How To Install xfonts-utils 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 xfonts-utils on Ubuntu.
What is xfonts-utils
xfonts-utils is:
xfonts-utils provides a set of utility programs shipped with the X Window System that are needed for font management.
The programs in this package include:
- bdftopcf, which converts BDF fonts to PCF fonts;
- bdftruncate and ucs2any, tools to generate fonts with various encodings from ISO 10646-encoded fonts
- mkfontdir, a program to generate fonts.dir files;
- mkfontscale, a program to generate fonts.scale files;
- fonttosfnt, a program to wrap bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType) wrapper.
There are three methods to install xfonts-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 xfonts-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 xfonts-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-utils
Install xfonts-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xfonts-utils
Install xfonts-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 xfonts-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xfonts-utils
How To Uninstall xfonts-utils on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the xfonts-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xfonts-utils
Uninstall xfonts-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xfonts-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfonts-utils
Remove xfonts-utils Configurations and Data
To remove xfonts-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xfonts-utils
Remove xfonts-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xfonts-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfonts-utils
Dependencies
xfonts-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-utils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.