How To Install fontforge-extras on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontforge-extras on Debian 10.
What is fontforge-extras
fontforge-extras is:
This package contains extra data and utilities for the FontForge font editor:
- cidmaps: character set descriptions for editing CID keyed fonts;
- encodings.ps: an extra encoding tables;
- showttf: a program which will decompose a truetype (or opentype) font file into its various tables and display the contents of those tables.
There are three methods to install fontforge-extras 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 fontforge-extras Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fontforge-extras using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fontforge-extras
Install fontforge-extras Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fontforge-extras using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fontforge-extras
Install fontforge-extras 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 fontforge-extras using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fontforge-extras
How To Uninstall fontforge-extras on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fontforge-extras package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fontforge-extras
Uninstall fontforge-extras And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fontforge-extras and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fontforge-extras
Remove fontforge-extras Configurations and Data
To remove fontforge-extras configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fontforge-extras
Remove fontforge-extras configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fontforge-extras configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fontforge-extras
Dependencies
fontforge-extras have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontforge-extras package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.