How to Install and Uninstall fonts-font-awesome Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "fonts-font-awesome" package

Learn how to install fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install fonts-font-awesome

2. Uninstall "fonts-font-awesome" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove fonts-font-awesome $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the fonts-font-awesome package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: fonts-font-awesome
Architecture: all
Version: 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: fonts
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1365
Provides: node-font-awesome (= 4.7.0~5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4), sass-stylesheets-fonts-awesome
Enhances: libjs-twitter-bootstrap, node-less, sass
Filename: pool/main/f/fonts-font-awesome/fonts-font-awesome_5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4_all.deb
Size: 515488
MD5sum: c4c149a94b69abd7468e2d12013c3ed4
SHA1: 0940e77189a322c4c163af4e59e5cd98bfaa68cd
SHA256: e03bd47204a4ffdcee2b0c2376e420d93b4ecd6f3ea8eef834621fe2bb4e4ca4
SHA512: 2897a1a4b790d31b20767cbb3c56f02e0d9485501b61508ca62e387e3f9b3541fbb30a8febc57a9c9e8c55e64cc5d2707bbe1994752f6e34653e295d56992fb4
Homepage: http://fontawesome.io/
Description-en: iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
This font contains about 249 various icon glyphs. Glyphs are designed
as scalable vector graphics hence display very well at any screen
size. This font was basically designed to be used with the Twitter
bootstrap library but can be used in other places also.
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This package also provides Sass and LESS files to use webfonts from
this package.
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Please note that this package provides Font Awesome 4
(not Font Awesome 5 or Font Awesome 6
which are different fonts with different licensing).
Description-md5: be6ec8d969faa653d467e6b751c9b8b3