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

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "xfonts-traditional" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install xfonts-traditional on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "xfonts-traditional" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall xfonts-traditional on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: xfonts-traditional
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 122
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Ian Jackson
Architecture: all
Version: 1.7.1
Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, libsys-cpu-perl, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, perl
Filename: pool/universe/x/xfonts-traditional/xfonts-traditional_1.7.1_all.deb
Size: 25644
MD5sum: ac98c371159b9c13d2f9353deb8af542
SHA1: 2d2b13748d574fd5c2717dcd2ae0cc6739d01d84
SHA256: d3dc8b3fbc7b612899b904a4f239198d1b224051ac3df7326ecff5983de87d1c
Description-en: Traditional fixed-width fonts for X
Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts.
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These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name
"trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier
versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes:
- balanced ` '
- less tall [ ] ( ) { }
- centred *
- high ~
- slightly higher &
- traditional appearance of W a
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These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character
set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the
backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000
documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render
correctly.
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Optionally, this package will edit your system configuration to make
the default fonts used by xterm refer to the traditional font.
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(This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data;
rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for
each relevant font you have installed.)
Description-md5: 74e810109a918b29eb86776f34355ee2
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu