How To Install fonts-noto-unhinted on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-noto-unhinted
on Debian 9.
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:
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu
- Noto Sans Avestan
- Noto Sans Balinese
- Noto Sans Bamum
- Noto Sans Batak
- Noto Sans Brahmi
- Noto Sans Buginese
- Noto Sans Buhid
- Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal
- Noto Sans Carian
- Noto Sans Cherokee
- Noto Sans Coptic
- Noto Sans Cuneiform
- Noto Sans Cypriot
- Noto Sans Deseret
- Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Noto Sans Glagolitic
- Noto Sans Gothic
- Noto Sans Hanunoo
- Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic
- Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi
- Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian
- Noto Sans Javanese
- Noto Sans Kaithi
- Noto Sans Kayah Li
- Noto Sans Kharoshthi
- Noto Sans Lepcha
- Noto Sans Limbu
- Noto Sans Linear B
- Noto Sans Lisu
- Noto Sans Lycian
- Noto Sans Lydian
- Noto Sans Mandaic
- Noto Sans Meetei Mayek
- Noto Sans Mongolian
- Noto Sans NKo
- Noto Sans New Tai Lue
- Noto Sans Ogham
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki
- Noto Sans Old Italic
- Noto Sans Old Persian
- Noto Sans Old South Arabian
- Noto Sans Old Turkic
- Noto Sans Osmanya
- Noto Sans Phags Pa
- Noto Sans Phoenician
- Noto Sans Rejang
- Noto Sans Runic
- Noto Sans Samaritan
- Noto Sans Saurashtra
- Noto Sans Shavian
- Noto Sans Sundanese
- Noto Sans Syloti Nagri
- Noto Sans Symbols
- Noto Sans Syriac Eastern
- Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela
- Noto Sans Syriac Western
- Noto Sans Tagalog
- Noto Sans Tagbanwa
- Noto Sans Tai Le
- Noto Sans Tai Tham
- Noto Sans Tai Viet
- Noto Sans Tifinagh
- Noto Sans Ugaritic
- Noto Sans Vai
- Noto Sans Yi
The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 43 are covered, at least partly, across hinted and unhinted packages).
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 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.