How To Install fonts-wine on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-wine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-wine

How To Uninstall fonts-wine on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• fonts-wine website

Summary

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