How To Install fonts-sil-padauk on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-padauk on Debian 9.
What is fonts-sil-padauk
fonts-sil-padauk is:
Padauk is a pan Myanmar Unicode font designed to support all the languages that use the Myanmar script. It supports all the characters in the Myanmar blocks for Unicode 6.0 and has OpenType and Graphite tables in it.
There is specific language styling support for: kht, ksw, kyu
There is feature support in Graphite for the following features: kdot, fdot, lldt, wtri, ulon, utal, dotc, hsln (value: 0-2), nnya, vtta
The GDL source code for the description and the corresponding documentation is available on the website or in the source package (simply type “apt-get source” to download it). In addition OpenType tables have been added.
The features of the font are complete coverage of Myanmar script (excluding unused characters U+1050..U+1059), Graphite smarts including line breaking rules, OpenType tables for use on Windows.
Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release: * Padauk * Padauk Bold * Padauk Book * Padauk Book Bold
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-padauk 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-sil-padauk 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-padauk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-padauk
Install fonts-sil-padauk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-padauk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-padauk
Install fonts-sil-padauk 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-padauk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-padauk
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-padauk on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-padauk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-padauk
Uninstall fonts-sil-padauk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-padauk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-padauk
Remove fonts-sil-padauk Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-padauk configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-padauk
Remove fonts-sil-padauk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-padauk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-padauk
Dependencies
fonts-sil-padauk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-padauk package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
