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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "fonts-sil-gentium-basic" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install fonts-sil-gentium-basic on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fonts-sil-gentium-basic" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall fonts-sil-gentium-basic on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: fonts-sil-gentium-basic
Priority: optional
Section: universe/fonts
Installed-Size: 2135
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1-7
Replaces: ttf-sil-gentium-basic (<< 1.1-4)
Recommends: fonts-sil-gentium
Breaks: ttf-sil-gentium-basic (<< 1.1-4)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fonts-sil-gentium-basic/fonts-sil-gentium-basic_1.1-7_all.deb
Size: 379134
MD5sum: 25b5b49dd3e6096abeac14098979810d
SHA1: 7593d0c73cd386a6733dd04b21d2534333ad2477
SHA256: 47bd86f911b8b5b2bd4827cdcce70a7c45a42e87bb012d6066ec9a04e4c014fc
Description-en: smart Unicode font families (Basic and Book Basic) based on Gentium
Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic are font families based on the original
Gentium design, but with additional weights. The "Book" family is slightly
heavier. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold
italic set of fonts.
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The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the main
Gentium fonts. These "Basic" fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1
Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended
Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and
punctuation. A much more complete character set will be supported in a future
version of the complete Gentium fonts. These "Basic" fonts are intended as a
way to provide additional weights for basic font users without waiting until
the complete Gentium character set is finished.
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There are, however, some wonderful new features that are still missing from
the main Gentium family:
* Bold
* Bold Italic
* The slightly-heavier Book family
* OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement
* A few useful OpenType and Graphite features
* Support for a few more recent additions to Unicode
* Character assignments updated to Unicode 5.1
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The font sources are available in the source package and directly on the
upstream project website.
Description-md5: 79e6929a856bace6f79707a68b4fb873
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: ubuntustudio-fonts