How To Install fonts-liberation on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-liberation

fonts-liberation is:

A set of serif, sans-serif and monospaced fonts from Red Hat with exactly the same metrics as the (non-free) Microsoft Times, Arial and Courier fonts, which implies those fonts can serve as a drop-in replacement. The font family is named Liberation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-liberation

Install fonts-liberation Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-liberation

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-liberation

How To Uninstall fonts-liberation on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-liberation

Uninstall fonts-liberation And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-liberation

Remove fonts-liberation Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-liberation

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-liberation have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-liberation website

Summary

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