How To Install fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 12.
What is fonts-noto-unhinted
fonts-noto-unhinted is:
Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
This package contains Noto font families which lacks hinting:
[ currently this package is empty: all Noto families has hinting ]
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 65 are covered, at least partly.
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-unhinted 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-unhinted 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-unhinted using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-noto-unhinted
Install fonts-noto-unhinted Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-noto-unhinted using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-noto-unhinted
Install fonts-noto-unhinted 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-unhinted using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-unhinted
How To Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-noto-unhinted package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-noto-unhinted
Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-noto-unhinted
Remove fonts-noto-unhinted Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-noto-unhinted configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-noto-unhinted
Remove fonts-noto-unhinted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-noto-unhinted configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-noto-unhinted
Dependencies
fonts-noto-unhinted have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.