How To Install fonts-sil-gentiumplus on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentiumplus on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-gentiumplus
fonts-sil-gentiumplus 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), TDC2003 (2003). The Gentium Plus font family is based on this original design.
The goal for this product is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
Eight fonts from this typeface family are included in this release, grouped into two families, including a slightly heavier Book family: * Gentium Plus Regular * Gentium Plus Bold * Gentium Plus Italic * Gentium Plus Bold Italic
* Gentium Book Plus Regular
* Gentium Book Plus Bold
* Gentium Book Plus Italic
* Gentium Book Plus Bold Italic
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-gentiumplus 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-gentiumplus 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-gentiumplus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-gentiumplus
Install fonts-sil-gentiumplus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-gentiumplus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-gentiumplus
Install fonts-sil-gentiumplus 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-gentiumplus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-gentiumplus
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-gentiumplus on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-gentiumplus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus
Uninstall fonts-sil-gentiumplus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-gentiumplus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-gentiumplus
Remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-gentiumplus
Remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-gentiumplus
Dependencies
fonts-sil-gentiumplus have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentiumplus package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
