How To Install fondu on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fondu on Debian 10.
What is fondu
fondu is:
Fondu is a set of programs to convert between Mac font formats and PFB, TTF, OTF and BDF files on UNIX.
Fondu will read a series of mac files, check their resource forks and extract all font related items into separate files.
The input files may be either macbinary files (.bin), binhex files (.hqx), bare mac resource forks or data fork resource files (.dfont, used by Mac OS/X). A bare resource fork may be generated easily be copying a file with a resource fork onto a floppy (or zip) with a DOS format. The mac will create an (invisible on the mac) folder called resource.frk in which the resource fork will reside as a bare file.
There are three methods to install fondu 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 fondu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fondu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fondu
Install fondu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fondu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fondu
Install fondu 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 fondu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fondu
How To Uninstall fondu on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fondu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fondu
Uninstall fondu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fondu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fondu
Remove fondu Configurations and Data
To remove fondu configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fondu
Remove fondu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fondu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fondu
Dependencies
fondu have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fondu package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.