How To Install fonts-sil-galatia on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-galatia on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-galatia
fonts-sil-galatia is:
The Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts are a new version of the SIL Galatia font released by SIL in 1997.
The Latin-1 codepage (“A-Z”, “a-z” plus some punctuation, etc.) is included in the font. This is to assist with viewing Latin or Roman text. The Macintosh character set for US Roman and the 850 WE/Latin-1 encodings are also included.
Polytonic Greek is supported but Coptic is not. There is no automatic formation of the final sigma.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-galatia 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-galatia 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-galatia using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-galatia
Install fonts-sil-galatia Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-galatia using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-galatia
Install fonts-sil-galatia 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-galatia using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-galatia
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-galatia on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-galatia package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-galatia
Uninstall fonts-sil-galatia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-galatia 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-galatia
Remove fonts-sil-galatia Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-galatia configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-galatia
Remove fonts-sil-galatia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-galatia configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-galatia
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-galatia package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
