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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "fonts-gfs-solomos" package

Please follow the instructions below to install fonts-gfs-solomos on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall fonts-gfs-solomos on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fonts-gfs-solomos
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Installed-Size: 111
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1-5
Replaces: ttf-gfs-solomos (<< 1.1-3)
Breaks: ttf-gfs-solomos (<< 1.1-3)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-gfs-solomos/fonts-gfs-solomos_1.1-5_all.deb
Size: 40722
MD5sum: 76d288d8d1901781a635c23870eea87d
SHA1: 3d63c4a749d578b900677477058c78896e7e5d2f
SHA256: 95ba213ff3da4bd8c97ad621528a3ce510a7afb41d178290d72f4e8c8fd91a85
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu