How to Install and Uninstall fonts-powerline Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 30,2024

1. Install "fonts-powerline" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install fonts-powerline on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall fonts-powerline on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: fonts-powerline
Architecture: all
Version: 2.8.1-3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Source: powerline
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 26
Depends: fontconfig
Filename: pool/universe/p/powerline/fonts-powerline_2.8.1-3_all.deb
Size: 5764
MD5sum: dfbaf5f0ec4c48bfcc37fcf5c3e3f67f
SHA1: 23e5f1a24ca5cc7069142e26bf2bde1f97bc44a0
SHA256: 0eeaaef1717b3b5b4bf85a4e8f8126a35d8abebfc724b71ae6dc399d160bb525
SHA512: 2dc07fb5f48aa4a3a595139566dfb16ff5e9d1a059e081f127d5745fd76fdc90b50e45135df16a3d7a0512ffdba0eea443f36bd5d99ae64fa0ed9f05a27bde5f
Homepage: https://github.com/powerline/powerline
Description-en: prompt and statusline utility (symbols font)
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts
for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and
Qtile.
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This package contains the font which provides symbols used by Powerline. It
also contains the fontconfig settings that makes these symbols available as
part of other installed fonts.
Description-md5: df8954c2cf3fddab0b3bcde6cb143031