How to Install and Uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "fonts-gfs-baskerville" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall fonts-gfs-baskerville on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fonts-gfs-baskerville package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fonts-gfs-baskerville
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Installed-Size: 131
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1-5
Replaces: ttf-gfs-baskerville (<< 1.1-3)
Breaks: ttf-gfs-baskerville (<< 1.1-3)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-gfs-baskerville/fonts-gfs-baskerville_1.1-5_all.deb
Size: 43418
MD5sum: 82644c3d579b362d186a0d9d1a1c76ae
SHA1: 70fd59018c9636930811aa80a05ba96666253ed1
SHA256: 8715228e4a53f57e17d8f6cb9773833019c946c70ac0450ea38b35e849308cc4
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu