How to Install and Uninstall fonts-font-awesome Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

You can also install and uninstall the fonts-font-awesome on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "fonts-font-awesome" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install fonts-font-awesome on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fonts-font-awesome" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall fonts-font-awesome on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fonts-font-awesome package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: fonts-font-awesome
Version: 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4.1
Installed-Size: 1369
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Provides: node-font-awesome (= 4.7.0~5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4.1), sass-stylesheets-fonts-awesome
Enhances: libjs-twitter-bootstrap, node-less, sass
Description: iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
Description-md5: be6ec8d969faa653d467e6b751c9b8b3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://fontawesome.io/
Section: fonts
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fonts-font-awesome/fonts-font-awesome_5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4.1_all.deb
Size: 517040
MD5sum: df46d41772b221b5290249a8660c7fd4
SHA256: 5f09e1adce26d59628a239c538882d53e58978b958233864fc617be9a510018e