How To Install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq is:
Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font supporting a wide variety of languages of Southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This font is aimed at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq fonts.
Awami means “of the people”, “of the common population” or “public”.
The Awami Nastaliq font does not provide complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode for Arabic script. Because the font style is specifically intended for languages using the Nastaliq style of southwest Asia, the character set for this font is aimed at those languages.
This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues. Font smarts have been implemented using Graphite only. There are no current plans to support OpenType.
One font from this typeface family is included in this release: * Awami Nastaliq 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-awami-nastaliq 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-awami-nastaliq 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-awami-nastaliq using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
Install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
Install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq 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-awami-nastaliq using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
Uninstall fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
Remove fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
Remove fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq
Dependencies
fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-awami-nastaliq package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.