How To Install grcompiler on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grcompiler on Debian 11.
What is grcompiler
grcompiler is:
SILGraphite is a system that can be used to create and use “smart fonts” capable of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors, such as: contextual shaping, ligatures, reordering, split glyphs, bidirectionality, stacking diacritics and complex positioning.
This library was designed and developed by the NRSI (Non-Roman Script Initiative) within SIL International (www.sil.org) to act as a complement to other smart font rendering technologies with limited practical local extensibility. Its purpose is to help meet the needs of a very large number of “minority language” communities for local extensibility of complex script behaviors.
The behavior of the SILGraphite rendering engine for a given writing system is specified through extra tables added to a TrueType font. These tables are generated by compiling a GDL (Graphite Description Language) source file into a font using grcompiler.
This package contains the graphite compiler.
There are three methods to install grcompiler on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install grcompiler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grcompiler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grcompiler
Install grcompiler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grcompiler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grcompiler
Install grcompiler 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 grcompiler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grcompiler
How To Uninstall grcompiler on Debian 11
To uninstall only the grcompiler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grcompiler
Uninstall grcompiler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grcompiler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grcompiler
Remove grcompiler Configurations and Data
To remove grcompiler configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grcompiler
Remove grcompiler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grcompiler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grcompiler
Dependencies
grcompiler have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grcompiler package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
