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David A. French
Asked: 2018-07-21 21:21:32 +0800 CST

How do I install fontforge on Kubuntu 18.04?

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Very straightforward question. When I try and run the PPAs it tells me that there is no release and it won't do it for security reasons. Does it not exist?

When I go to their website, they offer the ability to compile from source but that's a whole lot of stuff to do, and I thought fontforge came standard on Ubuntu and stuff? Or at least I would expect it to be installable from a deb or something. Isn't Ubuntu like one of the biggest distros? So I would think that they would have a version of font forge for it by now... right?

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  1. Best Answer

    fontforge PPA not available for 18.04

    The PPA for fontforge is not available for 18.04 as you can see on the PPA's page: https://launchpad.net/~fontforge/+archive/ubuntu/fontforge.

    First click Technical details about this PPA and then check the dropdown menu Display sources.list entries for:

    How to install fontforge in 18.04 (universe repo)

    To install fontforge, which is availbe in the universe repository as dsstorefile pointed out in a comment:

    Enable universe:

    sudo add-apt-repository universe

    See also: How do I enable the "Universe" repository?

    Then:

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install fontforge

    Remove the useless PPA from your system

    Now it is a wise idea to remove the PPA from your system, as it has no use to you.

    sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:fontforge/fontforge

    sudo apt-get update

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