How To Install fontmatrix on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontmatrix on Kali Linux. fontmatrix is featureful personal font manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontmatrix on Kali Linux.

What is fontmatrix

fontmatrix is:

This is a manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout professionals along with others have felt necessary, but modernized with some new touches.

Fontmatrix has a concept of ’tagging’. This makes it really nice to group fonts and even sub-group them logically for use in a book for instance. It also has extensive gui support for showing all glyphs in a font, previews of sample text, variable sizing and also tells what kinds of advanced Open Type features are inside each font. These features have never been seen outside of a font editor. And not least, it creates a nice PDF catalogue of user’s fonts for printing or reference. In short, fontmatrix is a font manager for professionals, but is nice and user friendly.

There are three methods to install fontmatrix on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fontmatrix Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fontmatrix using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fontmatrix

Install fontmatrix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fontmatrix using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fontmatrix

Install fontmatrix Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fontmatrix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fontmatrix

How To Uninstall fontmatrix on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fontmatrix package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fontmatrix

Uninstall fontmatrix And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fontmatrix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fontmatrix

Remove fontmatrix Configurations and Data

To remove fontmatrix configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fontmatrix

Remove fontmatrix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fontmatrix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fontmatrix

Dependencies

fontmatrix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontmatrix package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.