How To Install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
fonts-sil-sophia-nubian is:
Sophia Nubian is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font based on the SIL Sophia (similar to Univers) typeface. Its primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages which use the Coptic Unicode character set. Since Nubian languages do not use casing, uppercase characters are not included in this font. A basic set of Latin glyphs is also provided.
OpenType and Graphite smart code are available for Nubian macrons and “u” vowel.
Extended font sources are available.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-sophia-nubian 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-sophia-nubian using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
Install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
Install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian 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-sophia-nubian using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-sophia-nubian on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-sophia-nubian package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
Uninstall fonts-sil-sophia-nubian And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-sophia-nubian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
Remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
Remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-sophia-nubian
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
