How To Install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm is:
The Shimenkan family of fonts supports the broad variety of writing systems that use the Miao (Pollard) script.
The Latin glyphs are based on the OFL-licensed Source Sans Pro fonts (https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro). The Miao glyphs are designed to harmonize with the Latin, but remain true to the unique characteristics of Miao writing systems. The project is inspired by, but not based on, the Miao Unicode project (https://github.com/phjamr/MiaoUnicode).
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-shimenkan An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
This package provides fonts customized for Gepo / Bai Yi [ygp]
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
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-shimenkan-gsm 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-shimenkan-gsm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
Install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
Install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm 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-shimenkan-gsm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
Uninstall fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
Remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
Remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
Dependencies
fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-shimenkan-gsm
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.