Are you sure that it removed figlet, and didn't just change the config in the alternatives system? I have both installed on 16.04. Try: $ sudo update-alternat

Are you sure that it removed figlet, and didn't just change the config in the alternatives system? I have both installed on 16.04. Try: $ sudo update-alternatives --config figlet I have two choices: /usr/bin/figlet-figlet and /usr/bin/figlet-toilet to see what package provides each binary: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/figlet-figlet figlet: /usr/bin/figlet-figlet $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/figlet-toilet toilet: /usr/bin/figlet-toilet you should be able to choose figlet-figlet with update-alternatives if you want to use real figlet. But IIRC toilet is intended to be 100% backwards compatible, so there's probably not any real reason to do that (?). Or, you should be able to invoke figlet with 'figlet-figlet' on the CLI. ...assuming, of course, that my assumption is correct and it didn't actually remove figlet... :)