How To Install fonts-monoid-tight on Debian 12

Learn how to install fonts-monoid-tight on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fonts-monoid-tight is open source coding font with bitmap-like sharpness (tight tracking)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-monoid-tight on Debian 12.

What is fonts-monoid-tight

fonts-monoid-tight is:

Monoid is customizable and optimized for coding with bitmap-like sharpness at 12px/9pt even on low res display.

Monoid is semi-condensed and distinguishable glyphs with short ascenders, descenders, big apertures and super sized operators, punctuation.

It comes with regular, bold, oblique and retina versions with >750 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, ligature, alternate and Power-line glyphs.

This package contains the tight tracking variant.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-monoid-tight

Install fonts-monoid-tight Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-monoid-tight

Install fonts-monoid-tight 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-monoid-tight using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-monoid-tight

How To Uninstall fonts-monoid-tight on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-monoid-tight

Uninstall fonts-monoid-tight And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-monoid-tight and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-monoid-tight

Remove fonts-monoid-tight Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-monoid-tight configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-monoid-tight

Remove fonts-monoid-tight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-monoid-tight

Dependencies

fonts-monoid-tight have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-monoid-tight package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.