How To Install fonts-roboto-slab on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto-slab on Debian 10.
What is fonts-roboto-slab
fonts-roboto-slab is:
Roboto is Google’s signature family of fonts, the default font in Android and ChromeOS and the recommended font for Google’s visual language, Material Design.
Roboto supports all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters in Unicode 7.0 as well as currency symbol for the Georgian lari, to be published in Unicode 8.0.
This package contains the Slab Serif font for the Roboto font family.
There are three methods to install fonts-roboto-slab on Debian 10. 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-roboto-slab 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-roboto-slab using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-roboto-slab
Install fonts-roboto-slab Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-roboto-slab using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-roboto-slab
Install fonts-roboto-slab 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-roboto-slab using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-roboto-slab
How To Uninstall fonts-roboto-slab on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fonts-roboto-slab package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-roboto-slab
Uninstall fonts-roboto-slab And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-roboto-slab and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-roboto-slab
Remove fonts-roboto-slab Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-roboto-slab configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-roboto-slab
Remove fonts-roboto-slab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-roboto-slab configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-roboto-slab
Dependencies
fonts-roboto-slab have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-roboto-slab package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.