How To Install fonts-sil-padauk on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-sil-padauk

fonts-sil-padauk is:

Padauk is a pan Burma font designed to support all Myanmar script based languages. It covers all of the Unicode Myanmar script blocks and works on all OpenType and Graphite based systems.

Features:

• Special support for: ksw, kht, kyu, shn, aio, phk, csh
• Variation Selector support for kht, aio, phk

Issues:

• Does not work in Word 2007

For detailed documentation see the contents of the ‘documentation’ folder.

Font sources are published in the repository and an open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.

Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.

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

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

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

Install fonts-sil-padauk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-padauk

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-padauk

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-padauk on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-padauk

Uninstall fonts-sil-padauk And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove fonts-sil-padauk Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

fonts-sil-padauk have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-sil-padauk website

Summary

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