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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "fonts-sil-andika" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install fonts-sil-andika on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fonts-sil-andika
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fonts-sil-andika" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall fonts-sil-andika on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: fonts-sil-andika
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Installed-Size: 2666
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Version: 5.000-2
Replaces: ttf-sil-andika (<< 1.000-developer-1)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Breaks: ttf-sil-andika (<< 1.000-developer-1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-sil-andika/fonts-sil-andika_5.000-2_all.deb
Size: 1638944
MD5sum: f1f1430153f7000648dcc2e890d34a7d
SHA1: 967bd075b60a19d9ce8d169497a9720b4d65b307
SHA256: 9060a6423ab97b82f259cb66e7ec379e04377e63751c456381752bcdbfb1c28d
Description-en: extended smart Unicode Latin/Greek font family for literacy
Andika ("Write!" in Swahili) is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font
designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of
beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that
will not be easily confused with one another.
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A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching
people to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than some serif
fonts can be. For years, literacy workers have had to make do with fonts
that were available but not really suitable for beginning readers and
writers. In some cases, literacy specialists have had to tediously cobble
together letters from a variety of fonts in order to get the all of
characters they need for their particular language project, resulting in
confusing and unattractive publications. Andika addresses those issues.
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After receiving many insightful comments on the Design Review and Basic fonts,
Andika's final letterforms have been refined with alternate shapes still
available for some characters. This font now contains the same character set
as Charis SIL and Doulos SIL.
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Andika provides OpenType and Graphite features like smart code for diacritic
placement and supports recent additions to Unicode and the SIL PUA, and
character assignments are updated to conform to Unicode 5.1
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See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.
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Webfonts formats and HTML/CSS examples are available.
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Source files are available
Description-md5: d10569bd9179b3a8f0693c974cb3b0b6
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://scripts.sil.org/Andika
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: edubuntu-desktop-gnome, ubuntustudio-fonts