How To Install fontforge-extras on Debian 10

Learn how to install fontforge-extras on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fontforge-extras is Additional data and utilities for FontForge

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.