I wanted to uninstall fonts-ubuntu package.
I usedsudo apt remove fonts-ubuntu,
also tried $HOME/.local/share/fonts/ but this does not exists.
It doesnot have fonts-ubuntu package.
vrms although detects it as proprietery software. so i want to uninstall it, Help!!
2 Answers
Debian considers it to be non-free, while Canonical disagrees. You may want to study the debian/copyright file:
cat /usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/copyrightIf you use Ubuntu, you'd better trust Canonical on this kind of licensing matters.
Edit:
An adjustment has been made to the fonts-ubuntu package so as from Ubuntu 21.04 vrms will no longer consider it to be "non-free". (On Debian vrms will keep listing it as "non-free", though.)
fonts-ubuntu package contains the basic font used by Ubuntu GUI. It is a necessary part of every desktop Ubuntu installation, because default Ubuntu GNOME desktop environment depends on it. So in short, you cannot uninstall it if you want to have GUI. If you insist on uninstalling it, then probably the whole GUI will be uninstalled and you will be basically left with a console-only system.
Here's what the command apt show fonts-ubuntu says about the package:
Description: sans-serif font set from Ubuntu The Ubuntu Font Family is a set of contemporary sans-serif fonts developed between 2010-2011. Dalton Maag performed the font design work and implementation with funding from Canonical. The fonts have been the default fonts for Ubuntu since 2010.Here are the files belonging to the package, according to command dpkg-query -L fonts-ubuntu:
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/CONTRIBUTING.txt
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/FONTLOG.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/LICENCE-FAQ.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/TRADEMARKS.txt
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu/copyright
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-B.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-BI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-C.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-L.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-LI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-M.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-MI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-R.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-RI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-Th.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/UbuntuMono-B.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/UbuntuMono-BI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/UbuntuMono-R.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/UbuntuMono-RI.ttf
