How To Install fonts-lato on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-lato

fonts-lato is:

This package provides sans-serif typeface family font designed by Lukasz Dziedzic. (“Lato” means “Summer” in Polish). These fonts are published by author’s foundry tyPoland under terms of Open Font License.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-lato

Install fonts-lato Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-lato

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-lato

How To Uninstall fonts-lato on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-lato

Uninstall fonts-lato And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-lato

Remove fonts-lato Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-lato

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-lato have the following dependencies:

• dpkg

References

• fonts-lato website

Summary

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