How To Install unibetacode on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unibetacode
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is unibetacode
unibetacode is:
The unibetacode package contains two utilities primarily designed for ASCII transliteration of classical Greek: beta2uni converts Beta Code text to UTF-8 Unicode, and uni2beta converts text from UTF-8 Unicode to Beta Code. A third utility, unibetaprep, converts special codes for other characters (such as Byzantine musical symbols) into four- to six-digit Unicode code points.
Beta Code is an ASCII-only encoding scheme created in the 1970s as an efficient, intuitive digital input method for classical Greek. It provides an easy way to enter classical Greek on a plain ASCII keyboard for conversion to UTF-8 Unicode text. This package implements a subset of Beta Code as specified by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Project at the University of California, Irvine. The unibetacode package also is compatible with the Beta Code implementation of the Perseus Digital Library of Tufts University and other online repositories of classical Greek.
TLG Coptic support only includes the basic alphabet plus the jinma (grave) accent. TLG Hebrew support only covers the basic alphabet, aleph (U+05D0) through tav (U+05EA). To this base, unibetacode adds full Unicode coverage. The unibetacode(5) man page describes the Beta Code file format in detail. Files in the examples directory provide sample encodings and test data.
There are three methods to install unibetacode
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install unibetacode Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unibetacode
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unibetacode
Install unibetacode Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unibetacode
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unibetacode
Install unibetacode 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 unibetacode
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unibetacode
How To Uninstall unibetacode on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the unibetacode
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unibetacode
Uninstall unibetacode And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unibetacode
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unibetacode
Remove unibetacode Configurations and Data
To remove unibetacode
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unibetacode
Remove unibetacode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unibetacode
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unibetacode
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unibetacode
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.