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

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "fonts-ipafont-gothic" package

Learn how to install fonts-ipafont-gothic on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fonts-ipafont-gothic
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fonts-ipafont-gothic" package

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

Package: fonts-ipafont-gothic
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Installed-Size: 12275
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Source: fonts-ipafont
Version: 00303-13ubuntu1
Replaces: otf-ipafont-gothic (<< 00303-1)
Provides: fonts-japanese-gothic
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Recommends: fonts-ipafont-mincho
Breaks: otf-ipafont (<= 00301-4), otf-ipafont-gothic (<< 00303-1), ttf-ipafont (<= 00203-13)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-ipafont/fonts-ipafont-gothic_00303-13ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 3521878
MD5sum: eaf7b3577722f10d2a4492290417e967
SHA1: fdf662b4fa964c5082083ff9a44a64fae0e9eae3
SHA256: c2fc26c43fe3e8d8882ab92136ece8893bc107c9c319462feca707a381a56051
Description-en: Japanese OpenType font set, IPA Gothic font
IPAfont is a Japanese OpenType, a scalable font which was developed to
supersede both the TrueType and the Type 1 ("PostScript") font formats,
font set that is provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency,
Japan (IPA).
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IPAfont is an outline font set suitable for both display and printing.
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It comes with 2 styles in it. Equal-width and propotional styles are
provided for Gothic (san-serif) styles. It is known for its quality and
formal style and consists of IPA Gothic and IPA P Gothic.
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It covers practically every characters used in Japanese business
environments, i.e. about 11,000 characters based on JIS X 0213:2004.
Description-md5: db4305028cbd86b5c8eed9ef8fe87874
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/index.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu