How to Install and Uninstall fonts-symbola Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "fonts-symbola" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install fonts-symbola on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fonts-symbola
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fonts-symbola" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall fonts-symbola on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fonts-symbola
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fonts-symbola package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: fonts-symbola
Source: ttf-ancient-fonts
Version: 2.60-1
Installed-Size: 3104
Maintainer: Gürkan Myczko
Architecture: all
Replaces: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola (<< 2.59)
Provides: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola
Breaks: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola (<< 2.59)
Description: symbolic font providing emoji characters from Unicode 9.0
Description-md5: f8891af1a74801a45207108915b3153f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
Section: fonts
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/ttf-ancient-fonts/fonts-symbola_2.60-1_all.deb
Size: 1278998
MD5sum: f25ffc0ac632c3089ea17815f78d3ffc
SHA256: 6fe1e0cc2201ca2769c2b5ea3a84cbdadbf47fafbc93e0932f0020cbd04b54eb