How to Install fonts-font-awesome software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to Install fonts-font-awesome software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

fonts-font-awesome software package provides iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-font-awesome 

fonts-font-awesome is installed in your system.

Make ensure the fonts-font-awesome package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-font-awesome *

You will get with fonts-font-awesome package name, version, architecture and description in a table

fonts-font-awesome package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus
Section Fonts
Package fonts-font-awesome
Version 4.5.0~dfsg-1
Description iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
Sub Section Fonts


See Also, How to uninstall or remove fonts-font-awesome software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) ?