How To Install font-manager-common on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install font-manager-common
on Debian 12.
What is font-manager-common
font-manager-common is:
Font Manager is intended to provide a way for average users to easily manage desktop fonts, without having to resort to command line tools or editing configuration files by hand. While designed primarily with the GNOME Desktop Environment in mind, it should work well with other Gtk+ desktop environments.
This package provides the common shared files for font-viewer and font-manager packages.
There are three methods to install font-manager-common
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install font-manager-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install font-manager-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install font-manager-common
Install font-manager-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install font-manager-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install font-manager-common
Install font-manager-common 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 font-manager-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install font-manager-common
How To Uninstall font-manager-common on Debian 12
To uninstall only the font-manager-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove font-manager-common
Uninstall font-manager-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall font-manager-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove font-manager-common
Remove font-manager-common Configurations and Data
To remove font-manager-common
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge font-manager-common
Remove font-manager-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove font-manager-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge font-manager-common
Dependencies
font-manager-common have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libharfbuzz0b
- libjson-glib-1.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libsqlite3-0
- libxml2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install font-manager-common
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.