How To Install fonts-arphic-uming on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-uming on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-uming package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
