How To Install fonts-pecita on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-pecita on Debian 9.
What is fonts-pecita
fonts-pecita is:
Pecita is a hand-written font that give a natural rendition.
It includes all of the full Language support for Afrikaans, Archaic Greek Letters, Baltic, Basic Greek, Basic Latin, Catalan, Central European, Chess Symbols, Dutch, Euro, Igbo Onwu, IPA, Latin Ligatures, Mathematical Operators, Macedonian, Pan African Latin, Pinyin, Polytonic Greek, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Western European.
It implements the OpenType features Contextual Alternates, Standard Ligatures, Randomize, Small Capitals, Subscript and Superscript.
There are three methods to install fonts-pecita 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-pecita 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-pecita using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-pecita
Install fonts-pecita Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-pecita using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-pecita
Install fonts-pecita 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-pecita using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-pecita
How To Uninstall fonts-pecita on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fonts-pecita package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-pecita
Uninstall fonts-pecita And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-pecita and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-pecita
Remove fonts-pecita Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-pecita configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-pecita
Remove fonts-pecita configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-pecita configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-pecita
Dependencies
fonts-pecita have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-pecita package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
