How To Install woff-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install woff-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. woff-tools is tools to convert between OpenType and WOFF formats

Introduction

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

What is woff-tools

woff-tools is:

This package provides two tools:

  • sfnt2woff: convert OpenType fonts to WOFF fonts,
  • woff2sfnt: convert WOFF fonts to OpenType fonts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install woff-tools

Install woff-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install woff-tools

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

sudo aptitude -y install woff-tools

How To Uninstall woff-tools on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove woff-tools

Uninstall woff-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove woff-tools

Remove woff-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge woff-tools

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

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

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

Dependencies

woff-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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