How To Install fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact on Kali Linux. fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact is extended smart font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic

Introduction

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

What is fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact 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). The goal is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. 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.

Gentium Plus is based on the original Gentium design. However, it now has the full OpenType and Graphite support that Doulos SIL and Charis SIL contain ?? including full IPA support.

Gentium Plus Compact is a dedicated derivative with line spacing metrics modified to “Tight” via TypeTuner. More font sources (including web fonts and corresponding examples) are available in the main Gentium Plus release.

Work is ongoing to provide bold and bold-italic weights, as well as a complete book-weight family.

Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

Install fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

Uninstall fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

Remove fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

Dependencies

fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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