How To Install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic on Kali Linux.
What is fonts-sil-andikanewbasic
fonts-sil-andikanewbasic is:
Andika (“Write!” in Swahili) is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that will not be easily confused with one another.
A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching people to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than some serif fonts can be. For years, literacy workers have had to make do with fonts that were available but not really suitable for beginning readers and writers. In some cases, literacy specialists have had to tediously cobble together letters from a variety of fonts in order to get the all of characters they need for their particular language project, resulting in confusing and unattractive publications. Andika addresses those issues.
Andika New Basic is a limited-character-set (no extended IPA or Cyrillic) version of Andika that includes regular, bold, italic and bold-italic faces. Andika New Basic gives a preview of what a whole range of new weights will eventually look like.
A hallmark of Andika’s versatility for global use is its selection of alternate letterforms. These alternates are accessible via OpenType and Graphite font features. For applications that do not support OpenType or Graphite, TypeTuner Web (http://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi) allows you to download a custom font with your choice of which forms should be the default. TypeTuner is also available as a standalone utility - (http://scripts.sil.org/TypeTuner).
Andika New Basic is a limited-character-set version of Andika that includes a full family of styles (Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic).
In particular, these fonts do not support: Full extended Latin IPA Complete support for Central European languages Greek Cyrillic
What is the difference between Andika and Andika New Basic? Andika has a more complete character set comparable to Charis SIL and Doulos SIL Andika New Basic has a limited character set, supporting only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. Andika New Basic has all four faces: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic
What is the difference between Andika Basic (2008) and Andika New Basic? Andika New Basic has all four faces: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic Andika New Basic has a few more characters than Andika Basic Andika New Basic uses different glyphs for “a” and “r” based characters than Andika Basic, and are identical to the main Andika font Graphite feature identifiers were integers in Andika Basic and are 4-character alphanumeric tags in Andika New Basic
The full-character-set Andika is being updated to include all four faces (Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic).
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-andika An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic 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-sil-andikanewbasic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-andikanewbasicInstall fonts-sil-andikanewbasic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-andikanewbasicInstall fonts-sil-andikanewbasic 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-andikanewbasicHow To Uninstall fonts-sil-andikanewbasic on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-andikanewbasic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-andikanewbasicUninstall fonts-sil-andikanewbasic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-andikanewbasic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-andikanewbasicRemove fonts-sil-andikanewbasic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-andikanewbasic configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-andikanewbasicRemove fonts-sil-andikanewbasic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-andikanewbasic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-andikanewbasicDependencies
fonts-sil-andikanewbasic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-andikanewbasic package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
