How To Install xfonts-jmk on Debian 10

Learn how to install xfonts-jmk on Debian 10 with this tutorial. xfonts-jmk is Jim Knobles character-cell fonts for X

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-jmk on Debian 10.

What is xfonts-jmk

xfonts-jmk is:

These are character-cell fonts for use with the X Window System, created by Jim Knoble. The fonts currently included in this package are:

Neep (formerly known as NouveauGothic): A pleasantly legible variation on the standard fixed fonts that accompany most distributions of the X Window System. Comes in both normal and bold weights in small, medium, large, extra-large, and huge sizes, as well as an extra-small size that only comes in normal weight. ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-9, and ISO-8859-15 encodings are available. The 6x13, 8x15, and 10x20 sizes have an ISO-10646-1 (Unicode) variant, drawing glyphs missing in Neep from misc-fixed.

Modd: A fixed-width font with sleek, contemporary styling. Normal and bold weights in a 12-point (6x13) size. ISO-8859-1 encoding only.

There are three methods to install xfonts-jmk 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 xfonts-jmk Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-jmk

Install xfonts-jmk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xfonts-jmk

Install xfonts-jmk 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 xfonts-jmk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xfonts-jmk

How To Uninstall xfonts-jmk on Debian 10

To uninstall only the xfonts-jmk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xfonts-jmk

Uninstall xfonts-jmk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfonts-jmk

Remove xfonts-jmk Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge xfonts-jmk

Remove xfonts-jmk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfonts-jmk

Dependencies

xfonts-jmk have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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