How To Install fonts-cmu on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-cmu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-cmu

How To Uninstall fonts-cmu on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• fonts-cmu website

Summary

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