How to Install and Uninstall fonts-font-awesome Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "fonts-font-awesome" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fonts-font-awesome" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall fonts-font-awesome on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fonts-font-awesome package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fonts-font-awesome
Priority: optional
Section: fonts
Installed-Size: 1093
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Version: 4.5.0~dfsg-1
Filename: pool/main/f/fonts-font-awesome/fonts-font-awesome_4.5.0~dfsg-1_all.deb
Size: 505878
MD5sum: ac2f0a1deef98a64e6abb8b2be677c49
SHA1: f4233828d21bc796a633f2ea9ea8ef6ee84c2e3e
SHA256: 7ab633d377c3051d7cccc744796e58c8955202c513de7fdf7b99a0051f495376
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.
Description-md5: 5208ead63bcb496b10d0e64da0744eb8
Enhances: libjs-twitter-bootstrap, node-less, ruby-sass
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://fontawesome.io/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y