How To Install fonts-dejavu-web on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-dejavu-web
on Debian 12.
What is fonts-dejavu-web
fonts-dejavu-web is:
DejaVu provides an expanded version of the Vera font family aiming for quality and broader Unicode coverage while retaining the original Vera style. DejaVu currently works towards conformance with the Multilingual European Standards (MES-1 and MES-2) for Unicode coverage. The DejaVu fonts provide serif, sans and monospaced variants.
This package includes the woff/woff2 formats to be used as webfonts on a webserver.
There are three methods to install fonts-dejavu-web
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-dejavu-web 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-dejavu-web
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-dejavu-web
Install fonts-dejavu-web Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-dejavu-web
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-dejavu-web
Install fonts-dejavu-web 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-dejavu-web
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-dejavu-web
How To Uninstall fonts-dejavu-web on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-dejavu-web
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-dejavu-web
Uninstall fonts-dejavu-web And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-dejavu-web
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-dejavu-web
Remove fonts-dejavu-web Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-dejavu-web
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-dejavu-web
Remove fonts-dejavu-web configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-dejavu-web
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-dejavu-web
Dependencies
fonts-dejavu-web have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-dejavu-web
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.