How To Install fonts-babelstone-han on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-babelstone-han on Ubuntu 18.04. fonts-babelstone-han is BabelStone Fonts for Han

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-babelstone-han on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is fonts-babelstone-han

fonts-babelstone-han is:

BabelStone Han" is a Unicode Han font in Song/Ming style (宋体/明體) with G-source glyphs used in Mainland China. The font is derived from the “AR PL Mingti2L Big5” and “AR PL SungtiL GB” fonts (released under the Arphic Public License), converted to Unicode mappings, and expanded to cover a wide range of traditional and simplified characters in the CJK, CJK-A, CJK-B, CJK-C, CJK-D and CJK-E blocks, as well as a large number of currently unencoded characters in the Private Use Area.

There are three methods to install fonts-babelstone-han 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-babelstone-han 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-babelstone-han using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-babelstone-han

Install fonts-babelstone-han Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-babelstone-han

Install fonts-babelstone-han 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-babelstone-han using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-babelstone-han

How To Uninstall fonts-babelstone-han on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the fonts-babelstone-han package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-babelstone-han

Uninstall fonts-babelstone-han And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-babelstone-han and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-babelstone-han

Remove fonts-babelstone-han Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-babelstone-han configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-babelstone-han

Remove fonts-babelstone-han configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-babelstone-han

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-babelstone-han package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.