How To Install fonts-droid-fallback on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-droid-fallback on Kali Linux. fonts-droid-fallback is handheld device font with extensive style and language support (fallback)

Introduction

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

What is fonts-droid-fallback

fonts-droid-fallback is:

This package provides DroidSans Fallback variants, Fallback and FallbackFull.

Each contains extensive character set coverage including Western Europe, Eastern/Central Europe, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish support. The Droid Sans regular font also includes support for Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

Droid was designed by Ascender’s Steve Matteson and hinted to provide optimal quality for screen text.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-droid-fallback

Install fonts-droid-fallback Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-droid-fallback

Install fonts-droid-fallback 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-droid-fallback using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-droid-fallback

How To Uninstall fonts-droid-fallback on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-droid-fallback

Uninstall fonts-droid-fallback And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-droid-fallback

Remove fonts-droid-fallback Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-droid-fallback

Remove fonts-droid-fallback configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-droid-fallback

Dependencies

fonts-droid-fallback have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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