How To Install fonts-sil-gentium-basic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentium-basic on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-gentium-basic
fonts-sil-gentium-basic is:
Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic are font families based on the original Gentium design, but with additional weights. The “Book” family is slightly heavier. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold italic set of fonts.
The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the main Gentium fonts. These “Basic” fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. A much more complete character set will be supported in a future version of the complete Gentium fonts. These “Basic” fonts are intended as a way to provide additional weights for basic font users without waiting until the complete Gentium character set is finished.
There are, however, some wonderful new features that are still missing from the main Gentium family:
- Bold
- Bold Italic
- The slightly-heavier Book family
- OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement
- A few useful OpenType and Graphite features
- Support for a few more recent additions to Unicode
- Character assignments updated to Unicode 5.1
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-gentium-basic 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-gentium-basic 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-gentium-basic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-gentium-basic
Install fonts-sil-gentium-basic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-gentium-basic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-gentium-basic
Install fonts-sil-gentium-basic 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-gentium-basic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-gentium-basic
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-gentium-basic on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-gentium-basic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-gentium-basic
Uninstall fonts-sil-gentium-basic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-gentium-basic 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-gentium-basic
Remove fonts-sil-gentium-basic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-gentium-basic configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-gentium-basic
Remove fonts-sil-gentium-basic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-gentium-basic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-gentium-basic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentium-basic package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
