How To Install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont is:

Material Design Icons’ growing icon collection allows designers and developers targeting various platforms to download icons in the format, color and size they need for any project. This font contains icons form this collection.

This package also provides Css, Scss and LESS files to use webfonts from this package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

Install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

Install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont 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-materialdesignicons-webfont using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

How To Uninstall fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

Uninstall fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

Remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

Remove fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont

Dependencies

fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont website

Summary

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