How to Install and Uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "fonts-gfs-baskerville" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install fonts-gfs-baskerville on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fonts-gfs-baskerville
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fonts-gfs-baskerville" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fonts-gfs-baskerville
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fonts-gfs-baskerville package on Kali Linux

Package: fonts-gfs-baskerville
Version: 1.1-6
Installed-Size: 101
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Replaces: ttf-gfs-baskerville (<< 1.1-3)
Breaks: ttf-gfs-baskerville (<< 1.1-3)
Size: 43684
SHA256: 81d6c2748c1da201dfe57d8d123a2f6042d0bb64c2e882dbebadce205f55a102
SHA1: 764e8399aee4a29c3fa91e1c9352b30b21740cf3
MD5sum: a5ac880c8b61fb7ca7511eb5656c9379
Description: ancient Greek font revival
John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involved in typography late in his
career but his contribution was significant. He was a successful
entrepreneur and possessed an inquiring mind which he applied to
produce many aesthetic and technical innovations in printing. He
invented a new ink formula, a new type of smooth paper and made
various improvements in the printing press. He was also involved in
type design which resulted in a latin typeface which was used for the
edition of Virgil, in 1757. The quality of the type was admired
throughout of Europe and America and was revived with great success
in the early 20th century. Baskerville was also involved in the
design of a Greek typeface which he used in an edition of the New
Testament for Oxford University, in 1763. He adopted the practice of
avoiding the excessive number of ligatures which Alexander Wilson had
started a few years earlier but his Greek types were rather narrow in
proportion and did not win the sympathy of the philologists and other
scholars of his time. They did influence, however, the Greek types of
Giambattista Bodoni. and through him Didot's Greek in Paris. The
typeface has been digitally revived as GFS Baskerville Classic by
Sophia Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos and is now available
as part of GFS' type library.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
Tag: culture::greek, iso15924::grek, made-of::font, role::data, x11::font
Section: fonts
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fonts-gfs-baskerville/fonts-gfs-baskerville_1.1-6_all.deb