How To Install fonts-roboto-hinted on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto-hinted on Debian 9. fonts-roboto-hinted is Googles signature family of fonts (hinted)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto-hinted on Debian 9.

What is fonts-roboto-hinted

fonts-roboto-hinted is:

Roboto is Google’s signature family of fonts, the default font in Android and ChromeOS and the recommended font for Google’s visual language, Material Design.

Roboto supports all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters in Unicode 7.0 as well as currency symbol for the Georgian lari, to be published in Unicode 8.0.

This package contains Roboto font families with hinting.

There are three methods to install fonts-roboto-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-roboto-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-roboto-hinted using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-roboto-hinted

Install fonts-roboto-hinted Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-roboto-hinted

Install fonts-roboto-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-roboto-hinted using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-roboto-hinted

How To Uninstall fonts-roboto-hinted on Debian 9

To uninstall only the fonts-roboto-hinted package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-roboto-hinted

Uninstall fonts-roboto-hinted And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-roboto-hinted

Remove fonts-roboto-hinted Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-roboto-hinted

Remove fonts-roboto-hinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-roboto-hinted

Dependencies

fonts-roboto-hinted have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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