How to Install and Uninstall fonts-symbola Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "fonts-symbola" package

Learn how to install fonts-symbola on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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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 tutorial shows how to uninstall fonts-symbola on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: fonts-symbola
Architecture: all
Version: 2.60-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Source: ttf-ancient-fonts
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Gürkan Myczko
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3104
Provides: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola
Breaks: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola (<< 2.59)
Replaces: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola (<< 2.59)
Filename: pool/universe/t/ttf-ancient-fonts/fonts-symbola_2.60-1_all.deb
Size: 1279044
MD5sum: 44fd66f9bf7672b4694b04f059bf2891
SHA1: b5f9c1ac88ff3bdfa75ca054318fed5518a4ea24
SHA256: 4b4bff0c568ffe52c7e2dd217e7a7b4426918baa7520b7f3a91395eb318cce87
Homepage: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
Description: symbolic font providing emoji characters from Unicode 9.0
Description-md5: f8891af1a74801a45207108915b3153f
Task: xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-qt-desktop
Supported: 3y