How To Install fonts-noto-ui-core on Debian 12

Learn how to install fonts-noto-ui-core on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fonts-noto-ui-core is No Tofu font families with large Unicode coverage (UI core)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-ui-core on Debian 12.

What is fonts-noto-ui-core

fonts-noto-ui-core is:

Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.

This package contains core weights for these Noto UI font families:

  • Noto Looped Lao UI Bold
  • Noto Looped Lao UI Regular
  • Noto Looped Thai UI Bold
  • Noto Looped Thai UI Regular
  • Noto Naskh Arabic UI
  • Noto Sans Arabic UI
  • Noto Sans Bengali UI
  • Noto Sans Devanagari UI
  • Noto Sans Gujarati UI
  • Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI
  • Noto Sans Kannada UI
  • Noto Sans Khmer UI
  • Noto Sans Lao UI
  • Noto Sans Malayalam UI
  • Noto Sans Myanmar UI
  • Noto Sans Oriya UI
  • Noto Sans Sinhala UI
  • Noto Sans Tamil UI
  • Noto Sans Telugu UI
  • Noto Sans Thai UI

Noto UI fonts are for text display in UI elements (e.g. buttons, menus) that have a height limit.

The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts.

Tofu (???) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “??” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-ui-core

Install fonts-noto-ui-core Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-ui-core

Install fonts-noto-ui-core 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-noto-ui-core using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-ui-core

How To Uninstall fonts-noto-ui-core on Debian 12

To uninstall only the fonts-noto-ui-core package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-ui-core

Uninstall fonts-noto-ui-core And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-ui-core

Remove fonts-noto-ui-core Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-noto-ui-core configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-ui-core

Remove fonts-noto-ui-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-ui-core

Dependencies

fonts-noto-ui-core have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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