How To Install sortsmill-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install sortsmill-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. sortsmill-tools is tools for designers of digital fonts

Introduction

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

What is sortsmill-tools

sortsmill-tools is:

This package contains tools for designers of digital fonts, including tools enhancing FontForge and tools to build TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF) and Embedded OpenType (EOT) binary font files.

There are three methods to install sortsmill-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 sortsmill-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 sortsmill-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sortsmill-tools

Install sortsmill-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sortsmill-tools

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

sudo aptitude -y install sortsmill-tools

How To Uninstall sortsmill-tools on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove sortsmill-tools

Uninstall sortsmill-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sortsmill-tools

Remove sortsmill-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sortsmill-tools

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

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

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

Dependencies

sortsmill-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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