How to Install and Uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "fonts-gfs-baskerville" package

This tutorial shows how to install fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: fonts-gfs-baskerville
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1-6
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 101
Breaks: ttf-gfs-baskerville (<< 1.1-3)
Replaces: ttf-gfs-baskerville (<< 1.1-3)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-gfs-baskerville/fonts-gfs-baskerville_1.1-6_all.deb
Size: 43716
MD5sum: 961498a9d309ea6ccac12fb5e7470eef
SHA1: a77c223a612b020a32b1d216195aec0a4b710d9a
SHA256: 6b697a25b752b48a0bc0862cb2ad7aa7f978da7f273e7593f305155bb246a0b2
SHA512: 177988e1a0049cbc1a7c4a6cb29b177417b41a94b0de912474d63851724151a98574da7566905020f41fdebc1eda65dd848478e60cc67431ef50dc71575428b7
Homepage: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
Description-en: 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: 5ac5eae2dabb64097f591bc0591426b3