How to Install and Uninstall fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208" package

Learn how to install fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208" package

Learn how to uninstall fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208 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-nonfree-jisx0208 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208
Priority: extra
Section: multiverse/fonts
Installed-Size: 15416
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Version: 1:00103-5
Replaces: ttf-ipafont-jisx0208 (<< 00103-17)
Provides: fonts-japanese-gothic, fonts-japanese-mincho
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Suggests: fonts-ipafont
Breaks: ttf-ipafont-jisx0208 (<< 00103-17)
Filename: pool/multiverse/f/fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208/fonts-ipafont-nonfree-jisx0208_00103-5_all.deb
Size: 2937980
MD5sum: 5d7ac45266f9636e770de60a38e55950
SHA1: 90d398067442b3500c7e27f5c156d40a843925b5
SHA256: aa7b3967e272dab045d94d23aad563d05d3997570fde2fd4f080689c44cf39cf
Description-en: Japanese TrueType font, IPAfont (JISX0208)
IPAfont is Japanese TrueType font set that provided by Information-technology
Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA does NOT mean International Phonetic Alphabet).
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It consists of
* IPA Gothic
* IPA P Gothic
* IPA UI Gothic
* IPA Mincho
* IPA P Mincho
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It based on JISX0208 specifications. fonts-ipafont package is based on new
JISX0214, has different glyphs on some same characters. So this package
contains glyphs that have compatibility with old specifications, such as MS
Gothic or Mincho fonts or so. That is important thing for business documents.
Description-md5: ba5156a4eedcaa21954313a673af76b4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.ipa.go.jp/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu