How To Install fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 9. fonts-noto-unhinted is No Tofu font families with large Unicode coverage (unhinted)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 9.

What is fonts-noto-unhinted

fonts-noto-unhinted is:

Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.

This package contains Noto font families which lacks hinting:

  • Noto Nastaliq Urdu
  • Noto Sans Avestan
  • Noto Sans Balinese
  • Noto Sans Bamum
  • Noto Sans Batak
  • Noto Sans Brahmi
  • Noto Sans Buginese
  • Noto Sans Buhid
  • Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal
  • Noto Sans Carian
  • Noto Sans Cherokee
  • Noto Sans Coptic
  • Noto Sans Cuneiform
  • Noto Sans Cypriot
  • Noto Sans Deseret
  • Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs
  • Noto Sans Glagolitic
  • Noto Sans Gothic
  • Noto Sans Hanunoo
  • Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic
  • Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi
  • Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian
  • Noto Sans Javanese
  • Noto Sans Kaithi
  • Noto Sans Kayah Li
  • Noto Sans Kharoshthi
  • Noto Sans Lepcha
  • Noto Sans Limbu
  • Noto Sans Linear B
  • Noto Sans Lisu
  • Noto Sans Lycian
  • Noto Sans Lydian
  • Noto Sans Mandaic
  • Noto Sans Meetei Mayek
  • Noto Sans Mongolian
  • Noto Sans NKo
  • Noto Sans New Tai Lue
  • Noto Sans Ogham
  • Noto Sans Ol Chiki
  • Noto Sans Old Italic
  • Noto Sans Old Persian
  • Noto Sans Old South Arabian
  • Noto Sans Old Turkic
  • Noto Sans Osmanya
  • Noto Sans Phags Pa
  • Noto Sans Phoenician
  • Noto Sans Rejang
  • Noto Sans Runic
  • Noto Sans Samaritan
  • Noto Sans Saurashtra
  • Noto Sans Shavian
  • Noto Sans Sundanese
  • Noto Sans Syloti Nagri
  • Noto Sans Symbols
  • Noto Sans Syriac Eastern
  • Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela
  • Noto Sans Syriac Western
  • Noto Sans Tagalog
  • Noto Sans Tagbanwa
  • Noto Sans Tai Le
  • Noto Sans Tai Tham
  • Noto Sans Tai Viet
  • Noto Sans Tifinagh
  • Noto Sans Ugaritic
  • Noto Sans Vai
  • Noto Sans Yi

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-unhinted 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-unhinted 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-unhinted using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-unhinted

Install fonts-noto-unhinted Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto-unhinted using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-unhinted

Install fonts-noto-unhinted 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-unhinted using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-unhinted

How To Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 9

To uninstall only the fonts-noto-unhinted package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-unhinted

Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-unhinted

Remove fonts-noto-unhinted Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-noto-unhinted configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-unhinted

Remove fonts-noto-unhinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto-unhinted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-unhinted

Dependencies

fonts-noto-unhinted have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.