How To Install console-cyrillic on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install console-cyrillic on Kali Linux. console-cyrillic is Cyrillic fonts and keyboard layouts for Linux console

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install console-cyrillic on Kali Linux.

What is console-cyrillic

console-cyrillic is:

This package provides Cyrillic support on the Linux console with great number of customizations:

  1. Various supported encodings: utf-8, cp1251, ibm866, iso-8859-5, koi8-r, koi8-u, mac-cyrillic, mik, pt154 and rk1048.

  2. Belarusian, two Bulgarian, two Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, two Russian, Serbian and two Ukrainian keyboard mappings.

  3. Many screen fonts.

  4. Utilities: cyr, displayfont, dumppsf, makeacm, mkvgafont, raw2psf.

  5. Two fonts for Dosemu.

There are three methods to install console-cyrillic 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 console-cyrillic Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install console-cyrillic

Install console-cyrillic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install console-cyrillic

Install console-cyrillic 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 console-cyrillic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install console-cyrillic

How To Uninstall console-cyrillic on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the console-cyrillic package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove console-cyrillic

Uninstall console-cyrillic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove console-cyrillic

Remove console-cyrillic Configurations and Data

To remove console-cyrillic configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge console-cyrillic

Remove console-cyrillic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge console-cyrillic

Dependencies

console-cyrillic have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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