How To Install fonts-cmu on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-cmu on Debian 11.
What is fonts-cmu
fonts-cmu is:
Provides a set of Computer Modern Unicode fonts. It provides OpenType files.
They are based on the METAFONT version of the Computer fonts and contain many additional characters.
The fonts contain glyphs from Latin1, Cyrillic and Greek code sets.
There are three methods to install fonts-cmu on Debian 11. 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-cmu 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-cmu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-cmu
Install fonts-cmu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-cmu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-cmu
Install fonts-cmu 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 fonts-cmu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-cmu
How To Uninstall fonts-cmu on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fonts-cmu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-cmu
Uninstall fonts-cmu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-cmu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-cmu
Remove fonts-cmu Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-cmu configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-cmu
Remove fonts-cmu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-cmu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-cmu
Dependencies
fonts-cmu have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-cmu package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.