How To Install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp is:
“AR PL Mingti2L Big5” is a high-quality Chinese TrueType font (bsmi00lp.ttf) generously provided by Arphic Technology to the Free Software community under the “Arphic Public License”.
You also need to install the “latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp” package for typesetting with Omega or with CJK for LaTeX (cjk-latex).
There are three methods to install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 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-arphic-bsmi00lp 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-bsmi00lp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
Install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
Install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 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-arphic-bsmi00lp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
How To Uninstall fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
Uninstall fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
Remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
Remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
