How To Install fonts-sil-annapurna on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-annapurna on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-annapurna
fonts-sil-annapurna is:
These fonts are named after the majestic Annapurna mountain range of Nepal. The goal is to provide a Unicode-based font family with support for the many diverse languages that use Devanagari script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive.
Annapurna SIL has a calligraphic design that reflects the stroke contrast of writing the characters with a broad nib used for Devanagari.
Annapurna SIL is a TrueType font with “smart font” capabilities added using OpenType and Graphite font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of combining marks or the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.
Font sources are published in the repository and an open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available. The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-annapurna
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-annapurna on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-sil-annapurna 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-sil-annapurna using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-annapurna
Install fonts-sil-annapurna Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-annapurna using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-annapurna
Install fonts-sil-annapurna 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-annapurna using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-annapurna
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-annapurna on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-annapurna package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-annapurna
Uninstall fonts-sil-annapurna And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-annapurna and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-annapurna
Remove fonts-sil-annapurna Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-annapurna configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-annapurna
Remove fonts-sil-annapurna configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-annapurna configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-annapurna
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-annapurna package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
