How To Install fonts-firacode on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-firacode
on Kali Linux.
What is fonts-firacode
fonts-firacode is:
Fira Code is an extension of the Fira Mono font containing a set of ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, the ligatures allow one to correct spacing.
This font is expected to work in most text editors but won’t work in most (especially VTE-based) terminal emulators. A detailed list is available on https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#terminal-support
There are three methods to install fonts-firacode
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-firacode Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-firacode
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install fonts-firacode Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-firacode
using apt
by running the following command:
Install fonts-firacode 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.
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-firacode
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fonts-firacode on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the fonts-firacode
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall fonts-firacode And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-firacode
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove fonts-firacode Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-firacode
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove fonts-firacode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-firacode
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
fonts-firacode have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-firacode
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.