How To Install fonts-sil-doulos on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-doulos on Kali Linux.

What is fonts-sil-doulos

fonts-sil-doulos is:

The goal for the Doulos SIL font is 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.

The Doulos SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 5.1 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 2,200 glyphs are included, providing support for over 1,500 graphic or control characters as well as a large number of ligated character sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).

Doulos SIL is a TrueType font with “smart font” capabilities added using the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of multiple diacritics or the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.

Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.

The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-doulos An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.

There are three methods to install fonts-sil-doulos 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-doulos 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-doulos using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-doulos

Install fonts-sil-doulos Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-doulos using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-doulos

Install fonts-sil-doulos 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-sil-doulos using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-doulos

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-doulos on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fonts-sil-doulos package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-doulos

Uninstall fonts-sil-doulos And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-sil-doulos and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-doulos

Remove fonts-sil-doulos Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-sil-doulos configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-doulos

Remove fonts-sil-doulos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-doulos configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-doulos

Dependencies

fonts-sil-doulos have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-sil-doulos website

Summary

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