How To Install fonts-urw-base35 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-urw-base35 on Debian 12.
What is fonts-urw-base35
fonts-urw-base35 is:
A commercial-quality set of PostScript Type 1 fonts, metric-compatible with the 35 PostScript Language Level 2 Base Fonts. This package contains outlines in .t1 format and metrics in .afm format of the following fonts:
C059 D050000L Nimbus Mono PS Nimbus Roman Nimbus Sans Nimbus Sans Narrow P052 Standard Symbols PS URW Bookman URW Gothic Z003
This package also makes the fonts available to an X server under both their “urw” names and via fonts.alias under the official “adobe” names.
Extensive remakes of these fonts in the OpenType format are available in the GUST TeX Gyre collection in the fonts-texgyre package. The Cyrillic glyphs added to the now obsolete urwcyr fork of these fonts have been merged into the GNU FreeFont collection available in the fonts-freefont-otf or fonts-freefont-ttf packages.
There are three methods to install fonts-urw-base35 on Debian 12. 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-urw-base35 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-urw-base35 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-urw-base35
Install fonts-urw-base35 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-urw-base35 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-urw-base35
Install fonts-urw-base35 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-urw-base35 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-urw-base35
How To Uninstall fonts-urw-base35 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-urw-base35 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-urw-base35
Uninstall fonts-urw-base35 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-urw-base35 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-urw-base35
Remove fonts-urw-base35 Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-urw-base35 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-urw-base35
Remove fonts-urw-base35 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-urw-base35 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-urw-base35
Dependencies
fonts-urw-base35 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-urw-base35 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
