>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  2 Sep 2021 at 17:37, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Thanks, well that package is not in Ubuntu 16.04 but in 20.04 and I
>> know, I should upgrade 😇, but...

> I understand your hesitation to upgrade.  I'm the same.

Just thinking of what I need later to fine tune, makes me shudder.


> I'm sure ubuntu must have a font set that includes emojis.  Maybe
> somebody else here can chime in or ask on the ubuntu forums?

The funny thing is I copied NotoColorEmoji.ttf into 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto

And run, as I always do 
sudo fc-cache -f

However sudo fc-list | grep Emoji
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf: Noto Emoji:style=Regular

So the NotoColorEmji.ttf is somehow not found by the system 🥲