How To Install fonts-amiga on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-amiga on Debian 12.
What is fonts-amiga
fonts-amiga is:
Inspired by the article Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC) by Norbert Landsteiner, these fonts were reworked on some old pixel versions of the Commodore 64 and Amiga Workbench. The author had done years ago to include variable font axes for the size of the horizontal scanlines and the amount of horizontal bleed of the pixels due to the phosphor latency found in CRT displays.
This is the Amiga Workbench font.
There are three methods to install fonts-amiga on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fonts-amiga Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-amiga using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-amiga
Install fonts-amiga Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-amiga using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-amiga
Install fonts-amiga Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-amiga using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-amiga
How To Uninstall fonts-amiga on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-amiga package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-amiga
Uninstall fonts-amiga And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-amiga and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-amiga
Remove fonts-amiga Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-amiga configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-amiga
Remove fonts-amiga configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-amiga configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-amiga
Dependencies
fonts-amiga have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-amiga package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
