How To Install googlefontdirectory-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install googlefontdirectory-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. googlefontdirectory-tools is various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install googlefontdirectory-tools on Debian 10.

What is googlefontdirectory-tools

googlefontdirectory-tools is:

This package contains a collection of tools used by the Google Font Directory to work with fonts.

The package includes scripts to:

  • Generate ttf and otf fonts from sfd source files
  • Generate sfd source files from ttf and otf fonts
  • Generate font files with a subset of characters
  • Generate namelist files
  • Convert otf elements to ttf equivalents
  • Merge two font files into one
  • Auto-set and analyse PREP hinting and hinting tables
  • Setting GASP tables in font files
  • Analyse bounding boxes
  • Compare Unicode points and glyph names

There are three methods to install googlefontdirectory-tools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install googlefontdirectory-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install googlefontdirectory-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install googlefontdirectory-tools

Install googlefontdirectory-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install googlefontdirectory-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install googlefontdirectory-tools

Install googlefontdirectory-tools 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 googlefontdirectory-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install googlefontdirectory-tools

How To Uninstall googlefontdirectory-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the googlefontdirectory-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove googlefontdirectory-tools

Uninstall googlefontdirectory-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall googlefontdirectory-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove googlefontdirectory-tools

Remove googlefontdirectory-tools Configurations and Data

To remove googlefontdirectory-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge googlefontdirectory-tools

Remove googlefontdirectory-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove googlefontdirectory-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge googlefontdirectory-tools

Dependencies

googlefontdirectory-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install googlefontdirectory-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.