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

Last updated: November 24,2024

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

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1. Install "fonts-symbola" package

Please follow the steps below to install fonts-symbola on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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


    
        
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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 12 (Bookworm)

Package: fonts-symbola
Source: ttf-ancient-fonts
Version: 2.60-1.1
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_2.60-1.1_all.deb
Size: 1279216
MD5sum: d55becbcf9a3b2c630c426f9b4c08b0c
SHA256: 408244997437d4103e9cdc9dd75db29d0e5fbee6e6874536173995204033a6df