How To Install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab is:
This package installs Type1 and TFM fonts from a DNP font called “Wadalab”. You’ll get three flavours: Mincho, Gothic and Maru.
DNP stands for “Dai Nippon Printing” (a big printing company in Japan). DNP fonts are commercial fonts made by this company; if real DNP fonts have been already installed at your site, you should use them. But watanabe-dnp fonts (like Wadalab), which are customized from watanabe-jfonts to emulate DNP fonts, are freeware. The method of emulation is symbolic name linking.
These Type1 fonts differ from those in the gsfonts-wadalab package, because CJK author Werner Lemberg has introduced some fixes.
There are three methods to install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab 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 latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
Install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
Install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab 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 latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
How To Uninstall latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
Uninstall latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab And Its Dependencies
To uninstall latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
Remove latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab Configurations and Data
To remove latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
Remove latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
