How To Install fonts-arphic-uming on Debian 10

Learn how to install fonts-arphic-uming on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fonts-arphic-uming is AR PL UMing Chinese Unicode TrueType font collection Mingti style

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-uming on Debian 10.

What is fonts-arphic-uming

fonts-arphic-uming is:

“AR PL UMing” is a high-quality Chinese Unicode TrueType font collection (uming.ttc) derieved from the original “AR PL Mingti2L Big5” and “AR PL SungtiL GB” fonts generously provided by Arphic Technology to the Free Software community under the “Arphic Public License”.

It has been extended from the original “AR PL Mingti2L Big5” and “AR PL SungtiL GB” fonts with additional glyphs now covering ISO8859-1,2,3,4,9,10,13,14,15, BIG5, GB2312-80 and HKSCS-2004. It also includes Bopomofo Extensions for Hakka and Minnan according to the Unicode 5.0 standard and their MBE variants.

Support for CNS 11643, GBK, GB 18030, Japanese and Korean is under heavy development. Users who need more Han glyphs than provided by GB2312 and Big5 or who need support for Chinese minority languages may want to install this font package.

This font also includes Firefly’s bitmap characters for better rendering in small fontsizes (Big5 and GB2312 only).

This font is an alternative to the fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp and fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp font packages.

Original author: Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. URL: http://www.arphic.com.tw/ Modified by Arne Goetje ([email protected]) URL: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts

There are three methods to install fonts-arphic-uming on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fonts-arphic-uming Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-uming using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-arphic-uming

Install fonts-arphic-uming Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-uming using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-arphic-uming

Install fonts-arphic-uming Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-uming using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-arphic-uming

How To Uninstall fonts-arphic-uming on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fonts-arphic-uming package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-arphic-uming

Uninstall fonts-arphic-uming And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-arphic-uming and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-arphic-uming

Remove fonts-arphic-uming Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-arphic-uming configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-arphic-uming

Remove fonts-arphic-uming configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-arphic-uming configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-arphic-uming

Dependencies

fonts-arphic-uming have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-uming package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.