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SGC
May 29th, 2005, 07:37 PM
Both Kubuntu and Ubuntu came with a few Asian fonts that occupid about 86mb of hard disk space, here is away to remove them:

Open the terminal and copy and paste the following commands:

*** If you want to do it in one step, see the last command ***

Removing chinese fonts (33.4mb):
sudo apt-get remove ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp

Removing Korean fonts (28.7mb):
sudo apt-get remove ttf-baekmuk

Removing Japanese fonts (17.2mb):
sudo apt-get remove ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-kochi-gothic

Removing Malayalm fonts (242 kb):
sudo apt-get remove ttf-malayalam-fonts

Removing Indian fonts (1417 kb):
sudo apt-get remove ttf-indic-fonts

Removing Arabic fonts (5465 kb):
sudo apt-get remove ttf-arabeyes

If you want to do it in one step:
sudo apt-get remove ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-indic-fonts ttf-baekmuk ttf-arabeyes

If you think there are more fonts or local specifc packages that most people will not need, please post them here.
Spudgun
May 29th, 2005, 08:09 PM
Apt wanted to remove Ubuntu-Desktop aswell, so I decided not to.
SGC
May 29th, 2005, 08:24 PM
Apt wanted to remove Ubuntu-Desktop aswell, so I decided not to.
ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop is both meta packages, remove them will not remove any packages.
derrick1985
May 29th, 2005, 10:08 PM
Copy and paste wont' work because you don't have sudo in front of the commands.

Just as a note.
McQuaid
May 30th, 2005, 12:28 AM
Thank you for this tip, removed them all.

I don't have any of hand but if anyone has other stuff that can be removed similar to this, please post it here.
garnertr
May 30th, 2005, 12:36 AM
thanks, very useful; next time place the "full delete" list @ the top not the bottom!

I know, next time I should just SCROLL! har har...

Great job!
SGC
May 30th, 2005, 06:09 AM
Copy and paste wont' work because you don't have sudo in front of the commands.


Thanks, I fixed it.

thanks, very useful; next time place the "full delete" list @ the top not the bottom!


Thanks, I add a note about the full list at the begining.
kxs
June 24th, 2005, 04:17 PM
great tip :)
Zhukov
July 20th, 2005, 08:38 AM
Yeah, i also saw the "remove them all" after ive removed the fonts one by one... :P

Nice tut.
malmjako
October 6th, 2005, 02:53 AM
Is there a way to "hide" fonts that I don't use, so applications don't see them? I want to keep the ubuntu-desktop meta package in case more dependencies get added to it, and space is not critical.

I guess I could delete the actual files, but it doesn't seem to me to be a good solution. A control panel in gnome which allows me to choose which fonts to display would be nice...
mgor
October 6th, 2005, 12:53 PM
great tip.

but after i've copy pasted halft of them, then i saw "If you want to do it in one step:", heh ;-)

*note to self* read the whole first post in a thread
videodrome
December 4th, 2005, 09:52 PM
You can aslo type less by doing things like this:

sudo apt-get remove ttf-arphic-*

Then you don't have to type every arphic font name, it just uninstalls them all.

Loomis