How to Install and Uninstall xfonts-mplus Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "xfonts-mplus" package

Please follow the steps below to install xfonts-mplus on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                xfonts-mplus
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "xfonts-mplus" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall xfonts-mplus on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: xfonts-mplus
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 968
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers
Original-Maintainer: GOTO Masanori
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.4-1
Depends: xfonts-utils (>= 1:1.0.0-6)
Suggests: xfs | xserver
Conflicts: xbase-clients (<< 4.0)
Filename: pool/universe/x/xfonts-mplus/xfonts-mplus_2.2.4-1_all.deb
Size: 652388
MD5sum: 284636298522464d6507d57f1bfb6345
SHA1: 05e761bdc402ca8a36b16456d7e115e4c9b0725a
SHA256: 37501f7f9958f75155eaa70d37578530291d76dcf01e6a7c555d639ae12adc89
Description-en: M+ bitmap 10/12 dot Latin/Japanese fonts for X11
M+ bitmap fonts were designed to be simple and highly readable. It
includes ISO-8859-1,15 (6/10/12 dot) fonts and all Japanese jisx0208.1990
Kanji fonts (10/12 dot) as following:
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- mplus-gothic: M+ Gothic fonts (10/12dot, ISO-8859-1/Japanese)
- mplus-goth_p: it's similar to mplus-gothic, but its latin character part
is proportional fonts (10/12dot, ISO-8859-1/Japanese)
- mplus-fxd: yet another "fixed" fonts (10/12dot, ISO-8859-1/15)
- mplus-hlv: yet another "helvetica" fonts (10/12dot, ISO-8859-1/15)
- mplus-hlvw: 1 dot wide fonts than mplus-hlv ( 12dot, ISO-8859-1/15)
- mplus-sys: for window title/menu (10dot, ISO-8859-1/15)
- mplus-qub: 6 dot very small font (6dot, ISO-8859-1/15)
Description-md5: 98bcd9b1d37530e308b2d188c862a604
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu