How To Install fonts-wine on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-wine on Debian 10.
What is fonts-wine
fonts-wine is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
This package provides the fonts used by Wine.
There are three methods to install fonts-wine 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-wine 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-wine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-wine
Install fonts-wine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-wine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-wine
Install fonts-wine 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-wine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-wine
How To Uninstall fonts-wine on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fonts-wine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-wine
Uninstall fonts-wine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-wine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-wine
Remove fonts-wine Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-wine configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-wine
Remove fonts-wine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-wine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-wine
Dependencies
fonts-wine have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-wine package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.