How To Install fonts-sil-scheherazade on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-scheherazade on Debian 12.
What is fonts-sil-scheherazade
fonts-sil-scheherazade is:
Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.
The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Arabic-based writing system. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues.
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.
One font from this typeface family is included in this release: - Scheherazade Regular
This release supports virtually all of the Unicode 5.0 Arabic character repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). Font smarts are implemented using OpenType technology. Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-awami An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-scheherazade 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-scheherazade 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-scheherazade using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-scheherazade
Install fonts-sil-scheherazade Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-scheherazade using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-scheherazade
Install fonts-sil-scheherazade 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-scheherazade using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-scheherazade
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-scheherazade on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-scheherazade package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-scheherazade
Uninstall fonts-sil-scheherazade And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-scheherazade and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-scheherazade
Remove fonts-sil-scheherazade Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-scheherazade configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-scheherazade
Remove fonts-sil-scheherazade configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-scheherazade configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-scheherazade
Dependencies
fonts-sil-scheherazade have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-scheherazade package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
