How To Install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Kali Linux. fonts-sil-taiheritagepro is typeface reflecting the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script

Introduction

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

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.

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-taiheritagepro An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.

There are three methods to install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro 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-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 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-taiheritagepro using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-sil-taiheritagepro

How To Uninstall fonts-sil-taiheritagepro on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.