How To Install fonts-glasstty on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-glasstty on Debian 12.
What is fonts-glasstty
fonts-glasstty is:
This font faithfully reproduces the appearance of text on a DEC VT220 terminal, up to scanline gaps.
As a pixel font, it looks good only at sizes that are 20 pixel tall (or 1.5?, 2?, ?? that) – on most setups this corresponds to “point” size of 15 (22.5, 30, ??). You might get reasonable results for other sizes only with VRGB/VBGR antialiasing (usu. portrait orientation screens), HiDPI, or bad eyes.
Supported characters include DEC Western, vt100 graphics, and Cyrillic.
There are three methods to install fonts-glasstty 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-glasstty 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-glasstty using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-glasstty
Install fonts-glasstty Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-glasstty using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-glasstty
Install fonts-glasstty 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-glasstty using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-glasstty
How To Uninstall fonts-glasstty on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-glasstty package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-glasstty
Uninstall fonts-glasstty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-glasstty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-glasstty
Remove fonts-glasstty Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-glasstty configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-glasstty
Remove fonts-glasstty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-glasstty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-glasstty
Dependencies
fonts-glasstty have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-glasstty package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
