How To Install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

fonts-sil-sophia-nubian is:

Sophia Nubian is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font based on the SIL Sophia (similar to Univers) typeface. Its primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages which use the Coptic Unicode character set. Since Nubian languages do not use casing, uppercase characters are not included in this font. A basic set of Latin glyphs is also provided.

OpenType and Graphite smart code are available for Nubian macrons and “u” vowel.

Extended font sources are available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

Install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

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

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-sophia-nubian on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

Uninstall fonts-sil-sophia-nubian And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

Remove fonts-sil-sophia-nubian Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-sophia-nubian

Dependencies

fonts-sil-sophia-nubian have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-sil-sophia-nubian website

Summary

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