How to Install and Uninstall fbterm Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "fbterm" package

Please follow the guidance below to install fbterm on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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 guidance below to uninstall fbterm on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: fbterm
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7-5
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 (>= 1.1+ds1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fbterm/fbterm_1.7-5_amd64.deb
Size: 57696
MD5sum: 983f06603aa9efb26f1b2fbc8512605d
SHA1: e8fc7bd5fe44e45609820374fdc9c46e3e33560e
SHA256: 8ae25c7fee56236125863afe4f566d35f8469d7df62a15f82f60cc333c4bd9b5
SHA512: c9a1bacd120c006461c07934e0b1090609b2c895b783650091c0c3529e46782222a1a5f5182ce7f926d778fe68f3e3efb25a493ddc90b41b379557db1c5e676b
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