How To Install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
on Debian 12.
What is fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
fonts-ipaexfont-gothic is:
IPAex Fonts are JIS X 0213:2004 compliant OpenType fonts, 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 package provides IPAex Gothic Font in the Gothic (san-serif) style.
There are three methods to install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
on Debian 12. 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-gothic 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-gothic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic 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-gothic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
How To Uninstall fonts-ipaexfont-gothic on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Uninstall fonts-ipaexfont-gothic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Remove fonts-ipaexfont-gothic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Remove fonts-ipaexfont-gothic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
Dependencies
fonts-ipaexfont-gothic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.