How To Install fonts-takao on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-takao on Debian 10.
What is fonts-takao
fonts-takao is:
Takao Fonts are Japanese gothic and mincho scalable fonts. They are suitable for both display and printing. This package provides them in TrueType format.
Takao Fonts are based on IPA Fonts and IPAex Fonts. Takao’s purpose is to make it possible to maintain and release the fonts by the community with changing their names.
This is metapackage, depends on fonts-takao-{mincho,gothic} packages.
There are three methods to install fonts-takao on Debian 10. 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-takao 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-takao using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-takao
Install fonts-takao Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-takao using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-takao
Install fonts-takao 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-takao using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-takao
How To Uninstall fonts-takao on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fonts-takao package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-takao
Uninstall fonts-takao And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-takao and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-takao
Remove fonts-takao Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-takao configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-takao
Remove fonts-takao configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-takao configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-takao
Dependencies
fonts-takao have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-takao package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.