How To Install fonts-sil-gentium on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-sil-gentium

fonts-sil-gentium is:

Gentium (“belonging to the nations” in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a “Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design” in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003).

Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. The additional ’extended’ Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both ancient and modern Greek, including a number of alternate forms. It currently supports the following ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless noted):

Range Description

U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A U+0180-U+021F Latin Extended-B U+0222-U+0233 Latin Extended-B (continued) U+0250-U+02AD IPA Extensions U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks U+0370-U+03D5 Greek (not including archaic or Coptic) U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional U+1F00-U+1FFF Greek Extended U+2000-U+203A General Punctuation (partial) U+2070-U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols (partial) U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)

Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, including italic, and will expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Unicode 4.1.

GentiumAlt is an alternate font with flatter diacritics, specifically designed for languages using multiple accents.

The extended sources (Fontlab .vfb) for this font family are available in the source package and on the project website.

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

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

Install fonts-sil-gentium Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-gentium

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-gentium

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-gentium on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-gentium

Uninstall fonts-sil-gentium And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove fonts-sil-gentium Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-sil-gentium have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-sil-gentium website

Summary

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