How To Install fonts-roboto-slab on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-roboto-slab using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-roboto-slab

How To Uninstall fonts-roboto-slab on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• fonts-roboto-slab website

Summary

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