How To Install fonts-ipaexfont on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ipaexfont
on Debian 9.
What is fonts-ipaexfont
fonts-ipaexfont is:
IPAex Fonts are JIS X 0213:2004 compliant OpenType fonts based on TrueType outlines provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) from 2010. The older JIS X 0213:2000 font gliphs are also supported via IVS (Ideographic Variation Sequence). These are suitable for both display and printing.
These new fonts are developed from IPA Fonts to provide the best balance for the Japanese documentation mixed with Western characters by following Japanese printing tradition. Japanese characters (Kanji, Kana and punctuation marks) are full width mono-space pitch, and Western characters are proportional pitch.
This metapackage depends on fonts-ipaexfont-{mincho,gothic} packages to provide IPAex Mincho and IPAex Gothic Fonts.
There are three methods to install fonts-ipaexfont
on Debian 9. 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-ipaexfont 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-ipaexfont
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-ipaexfont
Install fonts-ipaexfont Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-ipaexfont
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-ipaexfont
Install fonts-ipaexfont 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-ipaexfont
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-ipaexfont
How To Uninstall fonts-ipaexfont on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fonts-ipaexfont
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-ipaexfont
Uninstall fonts-ipaexfont And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-ipaexfont
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-ipaexfont
Remove fonts-ipaexfont Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-ipaexfont
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-ipaexfont
Remove fonts-ipaexfont configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-ipaexfont
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-ipaexfont
Dependencies
fonts-ipaexfont have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ipaexfont
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.