How To Install fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-gfs-baskerville
fonts-gfs-baskerville is:
John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involved in typography late in his career but his contribution was significant. He was a successful entrepreneur and possessed an inquiring mind which he applied to produce many aesthetic and technical innovations in printing. He invented a new ink formula, a new type of smooth paper and made various improvements in the printing press. He was also involved in type design which resulted in a latin typeface which was used for the edition of Virgil, in 1757. The quality of the type was admired throughout of Europe and America and was revived with great success in the early 20th century. Baskerville was also involved in the design of a Greek typeface which he used in an edition of the New Testament for Oxford University, in 1763. He adopted the practice of avoiding the excessive number of ligatures which Alexander Wilson had started a few years earlier but his Greek types were rather narrow in proportion and did not win the sympathy of the philologists and other scholars of his time. They did influence, however, the Greek types of Giambattista Bodoni. and through him Didot’s Greek in Paris. The typeface has been digitally revived as GFS Baskerville Classic by Sophia Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos and is now available as part of GFS’ type library.
There are three methods to install fonts-gfs-baskerville 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-gfs-baskerville 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-gfs-baskerville using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-gfs-baskerville
Install fonts-gfs-baskerville Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-gfs-baskerville using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-gfs-baskerville
Install fonts-gfs-baskerville 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-gfs-baskerville using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-gfs-baskerville
How To Uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-gfs-baskerville package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-gfs-baskerville
Uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-gfs-baskerville
Remove fonts-gfs-baskerville Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-gfs-baskerville configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-gfs-baskerville
Remove fonts-gfs-baskerville configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-gfs-baskerville configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-gfs-baskerville
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-gfs-baskerville package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
