How To Install font-manager-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install font-manager-common on Kali Linux.
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 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 font-manager-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install font-manager-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install font-manager-commonInstall font-manager-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install font-manager-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install font-manager-commonInstall font-manager-common 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install font-manager-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install font-manager-commonHow To Uninstall font-manager-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the font-manager-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove font-manager-commonUninstall font-manager-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall font-manager-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove font-manager-commonRemove font-manager-common Configurations and Data
To remove font-manager-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge font-manager-commonRemove 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-commonDependencies
font-manager-common have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjson-glib-1.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libsqlite3-0
- libxml2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install font-manager-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
