How To Install fonts-sil-abyssinica on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-abyssinica on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fonts-sil-abyssinica
fonts-sil-abyssinica is:
Abyssinica SIL has a single face - regular.
The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Ethiopic-based writing system. In addition, there is provision for other Latin characters and symbols. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support the need to position arbitrary combinations of Ethiopic base glyphs and combining marks optimally. It also supports almost 200 kerning pairs. This version of the font also supports Stylistic Sets and Character Variants (OpenType) or Features (Graphite) which make glyph alternates available for a number of Ethiopic and punctuation characters. See the AbyssinicaSILOpenTypeFontFeatures.pdf, AbyssinicaSILGraphiteFontFeatures.pdf and AbyssinicaSILTypeTunerGuide.pdf for details on applications which support Stylistic Sets and how to access them.
One font from this typeface family is included in this release:
* Abyssinica SIL Regular
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-abyssinica An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-abyssinica 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-abyssinica 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-abyssinica using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-abyssinica
Install fonts-sil-abyssinica Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-abyssinica using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-abyssinica
Install fonts-sil-abyssinica 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-abyssinica using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-abyssinica
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-abyssinica on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-abyssinica package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-abyssinica
Uninstall fonts-sil-abyssinica And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-abyssinica 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-abyssinica
Remove fonts-sil-abyssinica Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-abyssinica configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-abyssinica
Remove fonts-sil-abyssinica configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-abyssinica configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-abyssinica
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-abyssinica package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
