How to Remove Unneeded Fonts in Ubuntu
I really appreciate the fact that Ubuntu comes ready to use in multiple languages; the fact that Ubuntu and Linux in general serve an international community is one of my favorite things about the operating system. That being said, I don’t need a lot of the fonts that come in the basic install of Ubuntu, especially the ones with Arabic and Asian characters. While looking for a way to safely and easily remove these unneeded fonts in Ubuntu, I came across this thread at LaunchPad, advising the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-arabeyes ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-baekmuk ttf-bengali-fonts ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-gentium ttf-gujarati-fonts ttf-indic-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-lao ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-mgopen ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-tamil-fonts ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-unfonts-core ttf-indic-fonts-core ttf-wqy-zenhei
This worked excellently as a way to remove unneeded fonts in Ubuntu. Now my font selection dialogs are easier to navigate, and I freed up about 78 MB of disk space as well, which is awesome for my Eee PC 701.
Did this work for you as well? How do you remove fonts you don’t want, but that come pre-installed on your Linux desktop?
works great on my netbook too. thanks for your tip
Heh… Running it now… Didn’t have that many installed, so they weren’t removed. But I hate having them there as I don’t need them, or need to view them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This had been bugging me for so long, and your solution was perfect!
This worked SO SO nicely for me. I have been frustrated at all the extra fonts, especially when i worked in the GIMP, it was difficult to find the font I wanted because there were so many unneeded or unnecessary fonts.
I kept asking, How do i remove ubuntu foreign fonts? How do i remove ubuntu extra fonts? How do i remove ubuntu arabic fonts? Nothing ever got me an answer. Thanks for this beautiful answer! :D