How To Install fonts-sil-gentium on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentium on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-gentium
fonts-sil-gentium is:
Gentium (“belonging to the nations” in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a “Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design” in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003).
Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. The additional ’extended’ Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both ancient and modern Greek, including a number of alternate forms. It currently supports the following ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless noted):
Range Description
U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A U+0180-U+021F Latin Extended-B U+0222-U+0233 Latin Extended-B (continued) U+0250-U+02AD IPA Extensions U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks U+0370-U+03D5 Greek (not including archaic or Coptic) U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional U+1F00-U+1FFF Greek Extended U+2000-U+203A General Punctuation (partial) U+2070-U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols (partial) U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)
Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, including italic, and will expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Unicode 4.1.
GentiumAlt is an alternate font with flatter diacritics, specifically designed for languages using multiple accents.
The extended sources (Fontlab .vfb) for this font family are available in the source package and on the project website.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-gentium on Debian 12. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-gentium
Install fonts-sil-gentium Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-gentium using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-gentium
Install fonts-sil-gentium 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-gentium using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-gentium
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-gentium on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-gentium package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-gentium
Uninstall fonts-sil-gentium And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-gentium and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-gentium
Remove fonts-sil-gentium Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-gentium configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-gentium
Remove fonts-sil-gentium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-gentium configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-gentium
Dependencies
fonts-sil-gentium have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentium package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
