How to Install and Uninstall fbterm Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "fbterm" package

This tutorial shows how to install fbterm on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fbterm
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fbterm" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall fbterm on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fbterm
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fbterm package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: fbterm
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7-4build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 148
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libstdc++6 (>= 5), libx86-1 (>= 0.99-1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fbterm/fbterm_1.7-4build1_amd64.deb
Size: 56436
MD5sum: 1949077bdcc94b6fc712185d0c1412c2
SHA1: 6490978851497c505eaf51551f93a5da1d601bc0
SHA256: 6e66bc5efa632d020f0d7a71935bf400fcf610da1c2759fc838a1909c0087ecf
SHA512: eca91468a9e1a139d50bb0abf7f668bdd2f860479717641d5defdeac4bb39dccfa4d54032a88cb1e22f4803c1c40206a61b9cb6f4ea905bced107510950070d3
Homepage: https://code.google.com/archive/p/fbterm/
Description-en: fast framebuffer based terminal emulator for Linux
FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame buffer device.
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Features include:
* mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is
enabled on framebuffer device
* select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+
based GUI apps
* dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell
* record scrollback history for every window
* auto-detect current locale and convert text encoding, support double width
scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc
* switch between configurable additional text encoding with hot keys
on the fly
* copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is
running
Description-md5: e70d5cd58a75b890572e92dbed274675
Task: kubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live