How To Install fonts-sil-abyssinica on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-abyssinica on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-abyssinica
fonts-sil-abyssinica is:
The Ethiopic script is used for writing many of the languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ethiopic (U+1200..U+137F) was added to Unicode 3.0. Ethiopic Supplement (U+1380..U+139F) and Ethiopic Extended (U+2D80..U+2DDF) were added to Unicode 4.1. Abyssinica SIL supports all Ethiopic characters which are in Unicode including the Unicode 4.1 extensions. Some languages of Ethiopia are not yet able to be fully represented in Unicode and, where necessary, non-Unicode characters were included in the Private Use Area.
Please read the documentation to see what ranges are supported and for more about the various features of the font.
Abyssinica SIL is a TrueType font with “smart font” capabilities added using the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of multiple diacritics or the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.
This release is a regular typeface, with no bold or italic version available or planned.
More font sources are available in the source package and on the project website. Webfont versions and examples are also available.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-abyssinica 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-sil-abyssinica 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-sil-abyssinica using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-abyssinica
Install fonts-sil-abyssinica Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-abyssinica using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-abyssinica
Install fonts-sil-abyssinica 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-sil-abyssinica using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-abyssinica
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-abyssinica on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-abyssinica package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-abyssinica
Uninstall fonts-sil-abyssinica And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-abyssinica and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-abyssinica
Remove fonts-sil-abyssinica Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-abyssinica configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-abyssinica
Remove fonts-sil-abyssinica configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-abyssinica configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-abyssinica
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-abyssinica package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
