How To Install fonts-sil-mingzat on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-mingzat on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-mingzat
fonts-sil-mingzat is:
Mingzat is based on Jason Glavy’s JG Lepcha font which was a custom-encoded font. His design is used with his generous permission. He also agreed to allow the font to be released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL).
The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font that would contain all Lepcha characters. In addition, there is provision for other Latin characters and symbols. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies (Graphite and OpenType) to support the need for conjuncts and to position arbitrary combinations of Lepcha glyphs and combining marks optimally.
One font from this typeface family is included in this release:
* Mingzat Regular
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-mingzat An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-mingzat 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-mingzat 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-mingzat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-mingzat
Install fonts-sil-mingzat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-mingzat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-mingzat
Install fonts-sil-mingzat 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-mingzat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-mingzat
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-mingzat on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-mingzat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-mingzat
Uninstall fonts-sil-mingzat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-mingzat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-mingzat
Remove fonts-sil-mingzat Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-mingzat configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-mingzat
Remove fonts-sil-mingzat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-mingzat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-mingzat
Dependencies
fonts-sil-mingzat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-mingzat package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
