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

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "fonts-gfs-solomos" package

Learn how to install fonts-gfs-solomos on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall fonts-gfs-solomos on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fonts-gfs-solomos
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fonts-gfs-solomos package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: fonts-gfs-solomos
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: 82
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-gfs-solomos/fonts-gfs-solomos_1.1-6_all.deb
Size: 40860
MD5sum: f1178476d61614747ef6c073c64efa64
SHA1: 06857d48eec51c2fc81bcd8540908daebb4ddd8f
SHA256: 4a89cf2af4206ff9d77f5b92503c46436a8da6d2c543636cd0163562a4468fe5
SHA512: 323f310eef6f460fb202e807ae8e4e056f0b1f8f9cf3fe3e7aff91d7e841a23a4ea29e3d07bbbe6e7aead84e8ef7955ca31e0a9349e97f80703fc951a86ea970
Homepage: https://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
Description-en: ancient Greek oblique font
From the middle of the 19th century an italic font with many
calligraphic overtones was introduced into Greek printing. Its source
is unknown, but it almost certainly was the product of a German or
Italian foundry. In the first type specimen printed in Greece by the
typecutter K. Miliadis (1850), the font was listed anonymously along
others of 11pts and in the Gr. Doumas' undated specimen appeared as
«11pt Greek inclined». For most of the second half of the century the
type was used extensively as an italic for emphasis in words,
sentences or excerpts. In 1889, the folio size Type Specimen of
Anestis Konstantinidis' publishing, printing and type founding
establishment also included the type as «Greek inclined [9 & 12 pt]».
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Nevertheless, the excessively calligraphic style of the characters,
combined with the steep and uncomfortable obliqueness of the
capitals, was out of favour in the 20th century and the type did not
survive the conformity of the mechanical type cutting and casting.
The font has been digitally revived, as part of our typographic
tradition, by George D. Matthiopoulos and is part of GFS' type
library under the name GFS Solomos, in commemoration of the great
Greek poet of the 19th century, Dionisios Solomos.
Description-md5: 144ff626067b511968ff9af88c55a640