How To Install fonts-sil-andika on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-andika on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-andika
fonts-sil-andika is:
Andika (“Write!” in Swahili) is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that will not be easily confused with one another.
A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching people to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than some serif fonts can be. For years, literacy workers have had to make do with fonts that were available but not really suitable for beginning readers and writers. In some cases, literacy specialists have had to tediously cobble together letters from a variety of fonts in order to get the all of characters they need for their particular language project, resulting in confusing and unattractive publications. Andika addresses those issues.
After receiving many insightful comments on the Design Review and Basic fonts, Andika’s final letterforms have been refined with alternate shapes still available for some characters. This font now contains the same character set as Charis SIL and Doulos SIL.
Andika provides OpenType and Graphite features like smart code for diacritic placement and supports recent additions to Unicode and the SIL PUA, and character assignments are updated to conform to Unicode 5.1
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-andika An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-andika 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-andika 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-andika using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-andika
Install fonts-sil-andika Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-andika using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-andika
Install fonts-sil-andika 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-andika using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-andika
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-andika on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-andika package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-andika
Uninstall fonts-sil-andika And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-andika 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-andika
Remove fonts-sil-andika Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-andika configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-andika
Remove fonts-sil-andika configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-andika configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-andika
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-andika package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
