How To Install fonts-takao-gothic on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-takao-gothic on Debian 10.
What is fonts-takao-gothic
fonts-takao-gothic 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 package includes Takao Gothic, Takao P Gothic and Takao Ex Gothic.
There are three methods to install fonts-takao-gothic 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-gothic 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-gothic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-takao-gothic
Install fonts-takao-gothic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-takao-gothic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-takao-gothic
Install fonts-takao-gothic 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-gothic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-takao-gothic
How To Uninstall fonts-takao-gothic on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fonts-takao-gothic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-takao-gothic
Uninstall fonts-takao-gothic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-takao-gothic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-takao-gothic
Remove fonts-takao-gothic Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-takao-gothic configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-takao-gothic
Remove fonts-takao-gothic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-takao-gothic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-takao-gothic
Dependencies
fonts-takao-gothic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-takao-gothic package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.