The emojis They are a distinctive element of the web today, and whose beginning can be found in the old emoticons or emoticons, which have evolved and expanded to occupy a preponderant space today, for better or for worse, as there are those who They love them, we also have those who hate to see how their use has expanded to the point of, in many cases, replacing writing.
Very recently a new version of a solution arrived that already had a while available but whose installation was not the simplest and most direct in the world; now things improve a lot for EmojiOne-Color-Font, that in his version 1.0 add some issues like a new PPA that simplifies installation in Ubuntu and completely eliminates the need to tinker with configuration files.
To begin we have to delete the following files (if they exist in our system, something that may not be the case):
~ / .fonts / EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf
~ / .local / share / fonts / EmojiOneColor-SGVinOT.ttf
~ / .config / fontcongif / fonts.conf
Thereafter we added the PPA Emoji Fonts by Eeosrei, which we achieve by executing the following from a terminal window (Ctrl + Alt + T):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eosrei/fonts sudo apt update && sudo apt install fonts-emojione-svginot
Once the package is installed We must restart Firefox, after which we will see the changes take effect and we will have the emojis available in all its glory, with very attractive colors and design. Notably at the moment this solution is only compatible with Firefox, Thunderbird and other solutions involving Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine). And it is that at the moment it is the platform with the best and most support for SVG in OT, something that both Chrome and native apps based on GTK +, Qt, etc., lacks.
Another issue to keep in mind is that to function BitStream Vera font is required to be installed, which will also become the default font in the system (something that today is shared by serif, sans-serif and monospace). The good thing, yes, is that this solution is compatible with both Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (to this day, still widely used) and the most recent Ubuntu LTS 16.04.
We can easily check if everything went well just by going to the following URL, provided by the creator of the PPA that we have installed:
http://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html
On many pages in the comments parts there were emoticons that I could not see and most of the tutorials I found on the internet made me install several MB of fonts that were useless (for example via synaptic I installed ttf-ancient-fonts and I still could not see certain emoticons), until I could find a solution: install the Segoe UI Emoji font in my personal folder .fonts (the file is called Seguiemj.ttf) and voila, without restarting ubuntu, I was able to solve this by seeing the emoticons. I clarify that the file is copied from the windows 10 source folder and it weighs only 978.3 Kb
The problem is that surely the Segoe source does not have a free license, if someone is strict with the licenses, they could not install it if they use a Linux with all of the free opensource license