How To Install fonts-sil-alkalami on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-alkalami on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-alkalami
fonts-sil-alkalami is:
Alkalami is the local word for the Arabic “qalam”, a type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden boards in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger, and what gives the style its distinct appearance. The baseline stroke is very thick and solid. The ascenders and other vertical strokes including the teeth are very narrow when compared to the baseline. A generous line height is necessary to allow for deep swashes and descenders, and the overall look of the page is a very black, solid rectangle. Diacritics are much smaller in scale, with very little distance from the main letters.
This font supports the characters known to be used by languages written with the Kano style of Arabic script, but may not have the characters needed for other languages.
This font utilizes state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues. Font smarts are implemented using OpenType only. There are no current plans to support Graphite.
Two fonts are included in this release: * Alkalami Regular * Alkalami Light Regular
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-awami An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-alkalami 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-sil-alkalami 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-sil-alkalami using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-alkalami
Install fonts-sil-alkalami Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-alkalami using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-alkalami
Install fonts-sil-alkalami 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-sil-alkalami using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-alkalami
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-alkalami on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-alkalami package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-alkalami
Uninstall fonts-sil-alkalami And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-alkalami and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-alkalami
Remove fonts-sil-alkalami Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-alkalami configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-alkalami
Remove fonts-sil-alkalami configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-alkalami configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-alkalami
Dependencies
fonts-sil-alkalami have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-alkalami package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
