How To Install fonts-gfs-didot-classic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-gfs-didot-classic on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-gfs-didot-classic
fonts-gfs-didot-classic is:
Under the influence of the neoclassical ideals of the late 18th century, the famous French typecutter Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing programme of Adamantios Korai, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enlightenment. The typeface eventually arrived in Greece, with the field press which came with Didot’s grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, during the Greek Revolution in 1821.
Since then the typeface has enjoyed an unrivaled success as the type of choice for almost every kind of publication until the last decades of the 20th century. Didot’s original type design, as it is documented in publications during the first decades of the 19th century, was digitized and revived by George D. Matthiopoulos in 2006 for a project of the Department of Literature in the School of Philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki, and is now available for general use.
There are three methods to install fonts-gfs-didot-classic 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-didot-classic 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-didot-classic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-gfs-didot-classic
Install fonts-gfs-didot-classic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-gfs-didot-classic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-gfs-didot-classic
Install fonts-gfs-didot-classic 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-didot-classic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-gfs-didot-classic
How To Uninstall fonts-gfs-didot-classic on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-gfs-didot-classic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-gfs-didot-classic
Uninstall fonts-gfs-didot-classic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-gfs-didot-classic 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-didot-classic
Remove fonts-gfs-didot-classic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-gfs-didot-classic configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-gfs-didot-classic
Remove fonts-gfs-didot-classic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-gfs-didot-classic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-gfs-didot-classic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-gfs-didot-classic package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
