How To Install tipa on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tipa on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tipa
tipa 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.
Among many features of TIPA, the following are the new features as compared with tsipa or any other existing systems for processing IPA symbols:
- A new 256 character encoding for phonetic symbols (`T3’), which includes all the symbols and diacritics found in the recent versions of IPA and some non-IPA symbols.
- Complete support of LaTeX2e.
- Roman, slanted, bold, bold extended and sans serif font styles.
- Easy input method in the IPA environment.
- Extended macros for accents and diacritics.
- A flexible system of macros for `tone letters'.
- An optional package (vowel.sty) for drawing vowel diagrams.
- A slightly modified set of fonts that go well when used with Times Roman and Helvetica fonts.
Type 1 fonts for TIPA are also included in this package (to make them available in X11 applications other than LaTeX, please install the xfonts-tipa package).
There are three methods to install tipa 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tipa
Install tipa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tipa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tipa
Install tipa 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tipa
How To Uninstall tipa on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tipa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tipa
Uninstall tipa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tipa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tipa
Remove tipa Configurations and Data
To remove tipa configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tipa
Remove tipa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tipa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tipa
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tipa package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
