How To Install fontconfig on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig on Debian 11.
What is fontconfig
fontconfig is:
Fontconfig is a font configuration and customization library, which does not depend on the X Window System. It is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular rasterization library on the application. The X-specific library ‘Xft’ uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
This package contains a program to maintain the fontconfig cache (fc-cache), a sample program to list installed fonts (fc-list), a program to test the matching rules (fc-match) and a program to dump the binary cache files in string form (fc-cat). It no longer makes fonts managed by defoma available to fontconfig applications.
There are three methods to install fontconfig on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fontconfig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fontconfig using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fontconfig
Install fontconfig Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fontconfig using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fontconfig
Install fontconfig 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 fontconfig using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fontconfig
How To Uninstall fontconfig on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fontconfig package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fontconfig
Uninstall fontconfig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fontconfig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fontconfig
Remove fontconfig Configurations and Data
To remove fontconfig configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fontconfig
Remove fontconfig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fontconfig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fontconfig
Dependencies
fontconfig have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.