fonts-sil-charis software package provides smart Unicode font family for Roman or Cyrillic-based writing systems, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fonts-sil-charis
fonts-sil-charis is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fonts-sil-charis package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-sil-charis *
You will get with fonts-sil-charis package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Fonts |
| Package | fonts-sil-charis |
| Version | 5.000-2 |
| Description | smart Unicode font family for Roman or Cyrillic-based writing systems |
| Sub Section | Fonts |