How To Install fonts-hack-otf on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-hack-otf
on Debian 10.
What is fonts-hack-otf
fonts-hack-otf is:
This package used to contain the OTF variant of the Hack font, which has been discontinued upstream. It now pulls in the TTF variant instead.
This package is a dummy transitional package. It can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install fonts-hack-otf
on Debian 10. 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-hack-otf 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-hack-otf
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-hack-otf
Install fonts-hack-otf Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-hack-otf
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-hack-otf
Install fonts-hack-otf 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-hack-otf
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-hack-otf
How To Uninstall fonts-hack-otf on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fonts-hack-otf
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-hack-otf
Uninstall fonts-hack-otf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-hack-otf
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-hack-otf
Remove fonts-hack-otf Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-hack-otf
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-hack-otf
Remove fonts-hack-otf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-hack-otf
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-hack-otf
Dependencies
fonts-hack-otf have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-hack-otf
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.