How To Install tipa-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tipa-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. tipa-doc is documentation for the TIPA LaTeX font

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tipa-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tipa-doc

tipa-doc is:

TIPA is a system for processing IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols in LaTeX written by Fukui Rei. TIPA stands for either TeX IPA or Tokyo IPA and derived from the tsipa package, made in 1992 by Kobayashi Hajime, Fukui Rei and Shirakawa Shun.

This package contains the documentation for the TIPA fonts for LaTeX.

There are three methods to install tipa-doc 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 tipa-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tipa-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tipa-doc

Install tipa-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tipa-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tipa-doc

Install tipa-doc 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 tipa-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tipa-doc

How To Uninstall tipa-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tipa-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tipa-doc

Uninstall tipa-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tipa-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tipa-doc

Remove tipa-doc Configurations and Data

To remove tipa-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tipa-doc

Remove tipa-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tipa-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tipa-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tipa-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.