How To Install fonts-symbola on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fonts-symbola

fonts-symbola is:

This package includes the Symbola font, which contains special symbols and emoji characters which are encoded in the Unicode Standard 9.0

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

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-symbola

Install fonts-symbola Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fonts-symbola

Install fonts-symbola 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-symbola using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-symbola

How To Uninstall fonts-symbola on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fonts-symbola

Uninstall fonts-symbola And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-symbola

Remove fonts-symbola Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-symbola

Remove fonts-symbola configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-symbola

Dependencies

fonts-symbola have the following dependencies:

References

• fonts-symbola website

Summary

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