How To Install fonts-sil-gentiumplus on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentiumplus on Debian 9.
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) and TDC2003 (2003). The goal 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.
Gentium Plus is based on the original Gentium design. However, it now has the full OpenType and Graphite support that Doulos SIL and Charis SIL contain ?? including full IPA support.
Work is ongoing to provide bold and bold-italic weights, as well as a complete book-weight family.
More font sources are available in the source package and on the project website. Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-gentiumplus on Debian 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.