How To Install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp on Kali Linux.

What is fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

fonts-arphic-gkai00mp is:

“AR PL KaitiM GB” is a high-quality Chinese TrueType font (gkai00mp.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-gkai00mp” package for typesetting with Omega or with CJK for LaTeX (cjk-latex).

There are three methods to install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp 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-gkai00mp 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-gkai00mp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

Install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

Install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp 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-gkai00mp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

How To Uninstall fonts-arphic-gkai00mp on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fonts-arphic-gkai00mp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

Uninstall fonts-arphic-gkai00mp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-arphic-gkai00mp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

Remove fonts-arphic-gkai00mp Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-arphic-gkai00mp configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

Remove fonts-arphic-gkai00mp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-arphic-gkai00mp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

Dependencies

fonts-arphic-gkai00mp have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-arphic-gkai00mp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.