How To Install fonts-sil-harmattan on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-harmattan on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-harmattan
fonts-sil-harmattan is:
Harmattan, named after the trade winds that blow during the dry season in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa.
This release supports virtually all of the Unicode 13.0 Arabic character repertoire (excluding the Quranic annotation signs in the Arabic Extended-A block and excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). Font smarts are implemented using OpenType and Graphite technologies.
This font uses state-of-the-art OpenType and Graphite font technologies, including variant glyphs for a number of characters for use in particular contexts.
This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures). This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may be considered unattractive in more traditional and literate communities.
Two fonts from this typeface family are included in this release: * Harmattan Regular * Harmattan Bold
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-harmattan An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-harmattan 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-harmattan 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-harmattan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-harmattan
Install fonts-sil-harmattan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-harmattan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-harmattan
Install fonts-sil-harmattan 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-harmattan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-harmattan
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-harmattan on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-harmattan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-harmattan
Uninstall fonts-sil-harmattan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-harmattan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-harmattan
Remove fonts-sil-harmattan Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-harmattan configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-harmattan
Remove fonts-sil-harmattan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-harmattan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-harmattan
Dependencies
fonts-sil-harmattan have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-harmattan package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
