How to Install and Uninstall fbterm Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "fbterm" package

Please follow the guidance below to install fbterm on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 step by step instructions below to uninstall fbterm on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fbterm
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 184
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libx86-1 (>= 0.99-1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fbterm/fbterm_1.7-2_amd64.deb
Size: 60642
MD5sum: 6af10a8ca11869a712a92fcfa519cbba
SHA1: d092ccd5b0790d7c9645914c53b3afb10ec0b878
SHA256: ac3dc0453e2605dcfcaf5915150b72d7eba312b22de04ec82d13b1744156f29f
Description-en: A 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: b2993ab54dda095ac9f9d49ef5187b61
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu