How To Install fonts-sil-galatia on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-galatia on Kali Linux. fonts-sil-galatia is font family for Latin-1 and Greek (polytonic support)

Introduction

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

What is fonts-sil-galatia

fonts-sil-galatia is:

The Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts are a new version of the SIL Galatia font released by SIL in 1997.

The Latin-1 codepage (“A-Z”, “a-z” plus some punctuation, etc.) is included in the font. This is to assist with viewing Latin or Roman text. The Macintosh character set for US Roman and the 850 WE/Latin-1 encodings are also included.

Polytonic Greek is supported but Coptic is not. There is no automatic formation of the final sigma.

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

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

Install fonts-sil-galatia Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-galatia

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-galatia

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-galatia on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-galatia

Uninstall fonts-sil-galatia And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove fonts-sil-galatia Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-sil-galatia have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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