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

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "fonts-ipaexfont-gothic" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fonts-ipaexfont-gothic" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall fonts-ipaexfont-gothic 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-ipaexfont-gothic package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Installed-Size: 5950
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Source: fonts-ipaexfont
Version: 00301-2ubuntu2
Replaces: otf-ipaexfont-gothic (<< 00103-4)
Provides: fonts-japanese-gothic
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Suggests: fonts-ipaexfont-mincho
Breaks: otf-ipaexfont-gothic (<< 00103-4)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-ipaexfont/fonts-ipaexfont-gothic_00301-2ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 3342614
MD5sum: 1fdb8a282e5e6199a7480464022d292b
SHA1: fe39fe5429daec6b165366773a902e38f5d4fccc
SHA256: bc064de47107cf61194450d05d5782eeda3d5e5458d96c1631975f608f3111ab
Description-en: Japanese OpenType font, IPAex Gothic Font
IPAex Fonts are JIS X 0213:2004 compliant OpenType fonts based on TrueType
outlines provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
(IPA) from 2010. These are suitable for both display and printing.
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These new fonts are developed from IPA Fonts to provide the best balance
for the Japanese documentation mixed with Western characters by following
Japanese printing tradition. Japanese characters (Kanji, Kana and
punctuation marks) are full width mono-space pitch, and Western characters
are proportional pitch.
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This package provides IPAex Gothic Font in the Gothic (san-serif) style.
Description-md5: 85ae0ca041723a3fafcd9ba738163870
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu