How To Install fonts-noto-unhinted on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-noto-unhinted using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-noto-unhinted

How To Uninstall fonts-noto-unhinted on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• fonts-noto-unhinted website

Summary

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