How To Install fonts-sil-charis on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-charis on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-charis
fonts-sil-charis is:
Charis is similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed specifically for laser printers. It is highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments. It also has a full set of styles
- regular, italic, bold, bold italic - and so is more useful in general publishing than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif proportionally spaced font optimized for readability in long printed documents.
The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release: * Charis SIL Regular * Charis SIL Bold * Charis SIL Italic * Charis SIL Bold Italic
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-charis 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-charis 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-charis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-charis
Install fonts-sil-charis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-charis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-charis
Install fonts-sil-charis 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-charis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-charis
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-charis on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-charis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-charis
Uninstall fonts-sil-charis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-charis and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-charis
Remove fonts-sil-charis Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-charis configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-charis
Remove fonts-sil-charis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-charis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-charis
Dependencies
fonts-sil-charis have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-charis package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
