How To Install fonts-cns11643-kai on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-cns11643-kai
on Debian 11.
What is fonts-cns11643-kai
fonts-cns11643-kai is:
The CNS 11643 character set (Chinese National Standard 11643), also officially known as the “Chinese Standard Interchange Code”, is officially the standard character set of the Republic of China. (In practice, variants of Big5 are de facto standard.)
TW-Kai is released by RDEC, Executive Yuan, ROC. It covers the characters plane 1 to 9 defined by CNS11643.
There are three methods to install fonts-cns11643-kai
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-cns11643-kai 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-cns11643-kai
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-cns11643-kai
Install fonts-cns11643-kai Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-cns11643-kai
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-cns11643-kai
Install fonts-cns11643-kai 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-cns11643-kai
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-cns11643-kai
How To Uninstall fonts-cns11643-kai on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fonts-cns11643-kai
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-cns11643-kai
Uninstall fonts-cns11643-kai And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-cns11643-kai
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-cns11643-kai
Remove fonts-cns11643-kai Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-cns11643-kai
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-cns11643-kai
Remove fonts-cns11643-kai configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-cns11643-kai
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-cns11643-kai
Dependencies
fonts-cns11643-kai have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-cns11643-kai
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.