How To Install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu 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 Lipo / Dong Lisu [lpo]
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-shimenkan-taogu 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-taogu
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
Install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
Install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu 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-shimenkan-taogu
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
Uninstall fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
Remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
Remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-shimenkan-taogu
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.