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JCCyC
Asked: 2022-02-15 11:28:29 +0800 CST

Keeping your emojis up to date in Ubuntu 20.04 - a better way? Some PPA?

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I was about to send a message through WhatsApp Web in Firefox, and I wanted to illustrate it with a Saluting Face emoji - ?. To my disappointment, this showed as a hex box. It's too recent. I looked around and ended up installing a newer version of fonts-noto-color-emoji. It works wonderfully, the newer emojis show OK.

My question is, is there a PPA for newer versions of this package so I wouldn't have to dpkg -i it manually every now and then?

20.04

1 Answers

  1. This package contains only three files where main file is NotoColorEmoji.ttf, simply install the recent version by

    cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fonts-noto-color-emoji/fonts-noto-color-emoji_2.034-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./fonts-noto-color-emoji_2.034-1_all.deb

    and enjoy.

    If you do not like above method, then create a script to fetch fonts from https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/tree/main/fonts and install them to user's fonts directory.

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