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

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "fontconfig" package

This is a short guide on how to install fontconfig on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall fontconfig on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fontconfig
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fontconfig package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: fontconfig
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.13.1-4.2ubuntu3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 370
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.13.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.8.1), fontconfig-config
Filename: pool/main/f/fontconfig/fontconfig_2.13.1-4.2ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 171208
MD5sum: e57ab05583ae54468bf1995b96e0929e
SHA1: 2ac7c3cbc412cfba43e64b79b9b640e2bb1d19c3
SHA256: 549710bef8221d78a3a566734b65fad382ae9654979a8afb7aa99c8df09d0961
SHA512: 08e3aa50bb37b6ee0388866520d88211a8b5e3b81c336c36de5740a6e4ad30b26c04ae5e126e81ab68a1b46df6a9b1897e64e7454b8f91e9459aa3a09065632c
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
Description-en: generic font configuration library - support binaries
Fontconfig is a font configuration and customization library, which
does not depend on the X Window System. It is designed to locate
fonts within the system and select them according to requirements
specified by applications.
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Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a
particular rasterization library on the application. The X-specific
library 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and
rasterize fonts.
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This package contains a program to maintain the fontconfig cache
(fc-cache), a sample program to list installed fonts (fc-list), a program
to test the matching rules (fc-match) and a program to dump the binary
cache files in string form (fc-cat). It no longer makes fonts managed by defoma
available to fontconfig applications.
Description-md5: 4c47f79299a983151349c73c189cb29a
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