How To Install fonts-atarismall on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-atarismall on Kali Linux. fonts-atarismall is Very small 4 x 8 font

Introduction

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

What is fonts-atarismall

fonts-atarismall is:

This is named atari small because it was designed for a terminal emulator written for an Atari 800. It only had a 320 pixel wide display, but an 80 column terminal was wanted, hence there is this font. This is somewhat cleaned up from the original version. It has only a one pixel descent to maximize pixels available to the main body of each character.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-atarismall

Install fonts-atarismall Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-atarismall

Install fonts-atarismall 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-atarismall using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-atarismall

How To Uninstall fonts-atarismall on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-atarismall

Uninstall fonts-atarismall And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-atarismall

Remove fonts-atarismall Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-atarismall

Remove fonts-atarismall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-atarismall

Dependencies

fonts-atarismall have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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