How To Install fonts-mplus on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-mplus

fonts-mplus is:

This is a collection of sans serif fonts with different weights, including Japanese glyphs.

All fonts were completed with Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, and Latin Extended-A. And most of extended glyphs and symbols were prepared too. So the fonts are in conformity with ISO-8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, windows-1252, and T1 encoding.

In addition, proportional M+ P Type-1 and M+ P Type-2 fonts were completed with Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended Additional, and ISO-8859-5. And many Greek, Cyrillic, IPA Extensions glyphs, and symbols were expanded. Those additional glyphs are included in M+ C provisionality.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-mplus

Install fonts-mplus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-mplus

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-mplus

How To Uninstall fonts-mplus on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-mplus

Uninstall fonts-mplus And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-mplus

Remove fonts-mplus Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-mplus

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-mplus have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-mplus website

Summary

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