How To Install libfcft-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft-doc on Kali Linux. libfcft-doc is font loading and glyph rasterization library – documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft-doc on Kali Linux.

What is libfcft-doc

libfcft-doc is:

fcft is a small font loading and glyph rasterization library built on-top of FontConfig, FreeType2 and pixman.

It can load and cache fonts from a fontconfig-formatted name string, e.g. Monospace:size=12, optionally with user configured fallback fonts.

After a font has been loaded, you can rasterize glyphs. When doing so, the primary font is first considered. If it does not have the requested glyph, the user configured fallback fonts (if any) are considered. If none of the user configured fallback fonts has the requested glyph, the FontConfig generated list of fallback fonts are checked.

This package contains the documentation as man pages.

There are three methods to install libfcft-doc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libfcft-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfcft-doc

Install libfcft-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfcft-doc

Install libfcft-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libfcft-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfcft-doc

How To Uninstall libfcft-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libfcft-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libfcft-doc

Uninstall libfcft-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libfcft-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfcft-doc

Remove libfcft-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libfcft-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libfcft-doc

Remove libfcft-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfcft-doc

Dependencies

libfcft-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.