How To Install ttfautohint on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ttfautohint on Kali Linux. ttfautohint is Automatic font hinter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ttfautohint on Kali Linux.

What is ttfautohint

ttfautohint is:

This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input, removes its bytecode instructions (if any), and returns a new font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType’s autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on platforms which don’t use FreeType.

This includes a cli and a gui version of the tool.

There are three methods to install ttfautohint 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 ttfautohint Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ttfautohint

Install ttfautohint Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ttfautohint using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ttfautohint

Install ttfautohint 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 ttfautohint using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ttfautohint

How To Uninstall ttfautohint on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ttfautohint package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ttfautohint

Uninstall ttfautohint And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ttfautohint

Remove ttfautohint Configurations and Data

To remove ttfautohint configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ttfautohint

Remove ttfautohint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ttfautohint

Dependencies

ttfautohint have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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