How To Install fonts-noto-hinted on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-hinted on Debian 9.
What is fonts-noto-hinted
fonts-noto-hinted is:
Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
This package contains Noto font families with hinting:
- Noto Kufi Arabic
- Noto Naskh Arabic
- Noto Naskh Arabic UI
- Noto Sans
- Noto Sans Armenian
- Noto Sans Bengali
- Noto Sans Bengali UI
- Noto Sans Cham
- Noto Sans Devanagari
- Noto Sans Devanagari UI
- Noto Sans Ethiopic
- Noto Sans Georgian
- Noto Sans Gujarati
- Noto Sans Gujarati UI
- Noto Sans Gurmukhi
- Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI
- Noto Sans Hebrew
- Noto Sans Kannada
- Noto Sans Kannada UI
- Noto Sans Khmer
- Noto Sans Khmer UI
- Noto Sans Lao
- Noto Sans Lao UI
- Noto Sans Malayalam
- Noto Sans Malayalam UI
- Noto Sans Myanmar
- Noto Sans Myanmar UI
- Noto Sans Oriya
- Noto Sans Oriya UI
- Noto Sans Sinhala
- Noto Sans Tamil
- Noto Sans Tamil UI
- Noto Sans Telugu
- Noto Sans Telugu UI
- Noto Sans Thaana
- Noto Sans Thai
- Noto Sans Thai UI
- Noto Sans Tibetan
- Noto Sans UI
- Noto Serif
- Noto Serif Armenian
- Noto Serif Bengali
- Noto Serif Devanagari
- Noto Serif Georgian
- Noto Serif Gujarati
- Noto Serif Kannada
- Noto Serif Khmer
- Noto Serif Lao
- Noto Serif Malayalam
- Noto Serif Tamil
- Noto Serif Telugu
- Noto Serif Thai
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 43 are covered, at least partly, across hinted and unhinted packages).
Tofu (???) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “??” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.
There are three methods to install fonts-noto-hinted on Debian 9. 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-noto-hinted 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-noto-hinted using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-hinted
Install fonts-noto-hinted Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto-hinted using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-hinted
Install fonts-noto-hinted 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-noto-hinted using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-hinted
How To Uninstall fonts-noto-hinted on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fonts-noto-hinted package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-hinted
Uninstall fonts-noto-hinted And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-noto-hinted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-hinted
Remove fonts-noto-hinted Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-noto-hinted configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-hinted
Remove fonts-noto-hinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto-hinted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-hinted
Dependencies
fonts-noto-hinted have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-hinted package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
