How To Install fondu on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fondu on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 fondu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fondu

How To Uninstall fondu on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fondu

Remove fondu Configurations and Data

To remove fondu configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• fondu website

Summary

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