How To Install fonts-oldstandard on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-oldstandard
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-oldstandard
fonts-oldstandard is:
The Old Standard font family is an attempt to revive a specific type of modern (classicistic) antiqua, very commonly used in various editions printed in the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned later.
The full font sources (fontforge .sfd and xgridfit .xdf) and extensive documentation are also available.
There are three methods to install fonts-oldstandard
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-oldstandard 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-oldstandard
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-oldstandard
Install fonts-oldstandard Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-oldstandard
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-oldstandard
Install fonts-oldstandard 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-oldstandard
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-oldstandard
How To Uninstall fonts-oldstandard on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-oldstandard
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-oldstandard
Uninstall fonts-oldstandard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-oldstandard
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-oldstandard
Remove fonts-oldstandard Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-oldstandard
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-oldstandard
Remove fonts-oldstandard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-oldstandard
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-oldstandard
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-oldstandard
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.