How To Install fonts-paratype on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-paratype on Debian 12.
What is fonts-paratype
fonts-paratype is:
The ParaType PT Sans and PT Serif font families were developed as part of the “Public Types of Russian Federation” project. The main objective of the project is to allow the peoples of Russia to read and write their native languages using free/libre fonts.
In addition to standard Western, Central European, and Cyrillic code pages, the fonts contain characters of all title languages of the Russian Federation.
PT Sans is based on Russian sans serif types of the second part of the XX century, but at the same time has a very distinctive features of modern humanistic design. The family consists of 8 styles: 4 basic styles, 2 caption styles for small sizes, and 2 narrow styles.
PT Serif is a transitional serif face with humanistic terminals designed for use together with PT Sans. It consists of 6 styles: 4 basic styles, and 2 caption styles for small sizes.
The fonts were released by ParaType, and designed by Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov.
There are three methods to install fonts-paratype 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-paratype 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-paratype using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-paratype
Install fonts-paratype Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-paratype using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-paratype
Install fonts-paratype 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-paratype using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-paratype
How To Uninstall fonts-paratype on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-paratype package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-paratype
Uninstall fonts-paratype And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-paratype and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-paratype
Remove fonts-paratype Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-paratype configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-paratype
Remove fonts-paratype configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-paratype configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-paratype
Dependencies
fonts-paratype have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-paratype package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
