How To Install fonts-powerline on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-powerline

fonts-powerline is:

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

This package contains the font which provides symbols used by Powerline. It also contains the fontconfig settings that makes these symbols available as part of other installed fonts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-powerline

Install fonts-powerline Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-powerline

Install fonts-powerline 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-powerline using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-powerline

How To Uninstall fonts-powerline on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fonts-powerline package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-powerline

Uninstall fonts-powerline And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-powerline and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-powerline

Remove fonts-powerline Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-powerline configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-powerline

Remove fonts-powerline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-powerline

Dependencies

fonts-powerline have the following dependencies:

• fontconfig

References

• fonts-powerline website

Summary

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