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

Last updated: December 30,2024

1. Install "fonts-symbola" package

Please follow the guidance below to install fonts-symbola on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install fonts-symbola

2. Uninstall "fonts-symbola" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall fonts-symbola on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove fonts-symbola $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

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

Package: fonts-symbola
Architecture: all
Version: 2.60-1.1
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_2.60-1.1_all.deb
Size: 1279200
MD5sum: 755eea42523cfcfbcac1ca10826e51b5
SHA1: 89da0430abad85876cdbc6fe736d906859556654
SHA256: c0ded2d56a594ff290e0bd9edd8fd7ddf72b2c85af4c8e4833557c19ee414585
SHA512: 3bade5de537a1d9bc8db847a3044c516d08c3b74526184ce96753dab1df6881df5f96eb92531e7435e41451460e55fc816fe76f47ecd8b394c62780f024976b5
Homepage: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
Description-en: symbolic font providing emoji characters from Unicode 9.0
This package includes the Symbola font, which contains special symbols and
emoji characters which are encoded in the Unicode Standard 9.0
Description-md5: f8891af1a74801a45207108915b3153f
Task: xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop