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How to remove the Fonts app from Ubuntu 20.04? And also how to view package name of system apps?

BeastOfCaerbannog
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The package name of the Fonts application is gnome-font-viewer. You can remove it using the command:

sudo apt purge gnome-font-viewer

In general, you can list the installed applications using:

apt list --installed

apt list also accepts globs for matching package names, as can be seen in man apt:

list
    list is somewhat similar to dpkg-query --list in that it can display a list of packages
    satisfying certain criteria. It supports glob(7) patterns for matching package names as well
    as options to list installed (--installed), upgradeable (--upgradeable) or all available
    (--all-versions) versions.

So you could list all installed packages containing "font" using:

apt list --installed "*font*"

and you would find gnome-font-viewer among others.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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  • The `gnome-font-viewer` package places no files in /etc, so is `purge` necessary? Would plain old `remove` accomplish the same? – user535733 Feb 23 '21 at 10:17
  • @user535733 It's a habit of mine to use `purge` instead of `remove`, unless I know I want to keep the configuration files. In essence, the result is the same in this case, so it wouldn't make a difference if `remove` was used instead of `purge`. – BeastOfCaerbannog Feb 23 '21 at 12:07