How To Install fonts-dclfonts on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-dclfonts on Kali Linux. fonts-dclfonts is GFD-DENNOU Club Library (DCL) - font files

Introduction

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

What is fonts-dclfonts

fonts-dclfonts is:

GFD-DENNOU Club Library (DCL) is a package of graphic and mathematical libraries developed by GFD-Dennou Club, see http://www.gfd-dennou.org/ It contains following libraries.

  • visualization libraries: wide variety of 1D and 2D graphics and limited 3D graphics
  • mathematical libraries FFT, Ordinary differential equation solver, Spherical harmonics analysis etc.

This package provides font files for DCL

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-dclfonts

Install fonts-dclfonts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-dclfonts

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-dclfonts

How To Uninstall fonts-dclfonts on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-dclfonts

Uninstall fonts-dclfonts And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-dclfonts

Remove fonts-dclfonts Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-dclfonts

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-dclfonts have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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