How To Install fonts-sil-charis on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-charis on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-charis
fonts-sil-charis is:
The goal for Charis SIL is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists.
The Charis SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 5.1 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 2,200 glyphs are included, providing support for over 1,500 graphic or control characters as well as a large number of ligated character sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release: * Charis SIL Regular * Charis SIL Bold * Charis SIL Italic * Charis SIL Bold Italic
Charis 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.
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-charis 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-charis 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-charis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-charis
Install fonts-sil-charis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-charis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-charis
Install fonts-sil-charis 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-charis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-charis
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-charis on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-charis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-charis
Uninstall fonts-sil-charis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-charis 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-charis
Remove fonts-sil-charis Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-charis configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-charis
Remove fonts-sil-charis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-charis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-charis
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-charis package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
