How To Install fonts-sil-doulos on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-doulos on Debian 11.
What is fonts-sil-doulos
fonts-sil-doulos is:
The goal for the Doulos SIL font is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists.
The Doulos SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 5.1 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 2,200 glyphs are included, providing support for over 1,500 graphic or control characters as well as a large number of ligated character sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
Doulos SIL is a TrueType font with “smart font” capabilities added using the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of multiple diacritics or the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-doulos An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-doulos on Debian 11. 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-sil-doulos 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-sil-doulos using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-doulos
Install fonts-sil-doulos Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-doulos using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-doulos
Install fonts-sil-doulos 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-sil-doulos using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-doulos
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-doulos on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-doulos package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-doulos
Uninstall fonts-sil-doulos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-doulos and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-doulos
Remove fonts-sil-doulos Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-doulos configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-doulos
Remove fonts-sil-doulos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-doulos configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-doulos
Dependencies
fonts-sil-doulos have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-doulos package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
