How To Install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Debian 9.
What is fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
fonts-sil-taiheritagepro is:
The original Tai Heritage font was designed to reflect the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script that is treasured by the Tai people of Vietnam. This gives it its angular style and flowing lines, as opposed to the more rounded style used by Lao and some modern versions of Tai Viet.
The current Tai Heritage Pro release is Unicode encoded, based on the Unicode 5.2 standard. It uses either the SIL Graphite technology or OpenType for correct placement of combining marks (vowels and tones).
The Tai Dam, Tai Daeng and Tai Don people who live in northwestern Vietnam and surrounding areas have a long tradition of literacy in the Tai Viet script. Their languages belong to the Tai-Kadai language family and are closely related to Lao.
There are three methods to install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Debian 9. 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-taiheritagepro 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-taiheritagepro using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
Install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
Install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro 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-taiheritagepro using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
How To Uninstall fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fonts-sil-taiheritagepro package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
Uninstall fonts-sil-taiheritagepro And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-sil-taiheritagepro and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
Remove fonts-sil-taiheritagepro Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-sil-taiheritagepro configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
Remove fonts-sil-taiheritagepro configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-sil-taiheritagepro configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-sil-taiheritagepro
Dependencies
fonts-sil-taiheritagepro have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.