How To Install fonts-ipafont-gothic on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ipafont-gothic
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fonts-ipafont-gothic
fonts-ipafont-gothic is:
IPA Fonts are JIS X 0213:2004 compliant OpenType fonts based on TrueType outlines provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) from 2003. These are suitable for both display and printing.
This package provides Gothic (san-serif) style fonts. IPA Gothic Font is the equal-width font. IPA P Gothic Font is the propotional font.
In the equal-width font, the fullwidth characters (most CJK characters) occupy exactly twice as much width of the halfwidth characters (normal alphabets and numbers).
There are three methods to install fonts-ipafont-gothic
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-ipafont-gothic 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-ipafont-gothic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-ipafont-gothic
Install fonts-ipafont-gothic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-ipafont-gothic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-ipafont-gothic
Install fonts-ipafont-gothic 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-ipafont-gothic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-ipafont-gothic
How To Uninstall fonts-ipafont-gothic on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fonts-ipafont-gothic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-ipafont-gothic
Uninstall fonts-ipafont-gothic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-ipafont-gothic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-ipafont-gothic
Remove fonts-ipafont-gothic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-ipafont-gothic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-ipafont-gothic
Remove fonts-ipafont-gothic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-ipafont-gothic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-ipafont-gothic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ipafont-gothic
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.