How To Install fonts-glasstty on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-glasstty

fonts-glasstty is:

This font faithfully reproduces the appearance of text on a DEC VT220 terminal, up to scanline gaps.

As a pixel font, it looks good only at sizes that are 20 pixel tall (or 1.5?, 2?, ?? that) – on most setups this corresponds to “point” size of 15 (22.5, 30, ??). You might get reasonable results for other sizes only with VRGB/VBGR antialiasing (usu. portrait orientation screens), HiDPI, or bad eyes.

Supported characters include DEC Western, vt100 graphics, and Cyrillic.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-glasstty

Install fonts-glasstty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-glasstty

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-glasstty

How To Uninstall fonts-glasstty on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-glasstty

Uninstall fonts-glasstty And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-glasstty

Remove fonts-glasstty Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-glasstty

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-glasstty have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-glasstty website

Summary

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