How To Install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp on Kali Linux.

What is fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp is:

“AR PL Mingti2L Big5” is a high-quality Chinese TrueType font (bsmi00lp.ttf) generously provided by Arphic Technology to the Free Software community under the “Arphic Public License”.

You also need to install the “latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp” package for typesetting with Omega or with CJK for LaTeX (cjk-latex).

There are three methods to install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 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 fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

Install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

Install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

How To Uninstall fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

Uninstall fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

Remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

Remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp

Dependencies

fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp have the following dependencies:

• dpkg

References

• fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.