How To Install fonts-urw-base35 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-urw-base35 on Kali Linux.

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

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 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-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 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-urw-base35 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-urw-base35

How To Uninstall fonts-urw-base35 on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• fonts-urw-base35 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-urw-base35 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.