How To Install fonts-wqy-zenhei on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-wqy-zenhei on Debian 11.
What is fonts-wqy-zenhei
fonts-wqy-zenhei is:
WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a Hei-Ti style (sans-serif type) Chinese font. It was designed for general purpose text formatting and on-screen display of Chinese characters among many other languages. The embolden strokes of the font glyphs produces enhanced screen contrast, making it easier to read and recognize. The embedded bitmap glyphs further enhance on-screen performance, and can be enabled with the provided configuration files.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei provides a fairly complete coverage of Chinese Hanzi glyphs, including both simplified and traditional forms. The total glyph number in this font is over 35,000, including over 21,000 Chinese Hanzi. This font provides full coverage of GBK (CP936) charset, CJK Unified Ideographs, as well as the code-points needed for zh_CN, zh_SG, zh_TW, zh_HK, zh_MO, ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean) locales for fontconfig.
Starting from version 0.8, this font package provides two font families, i.e. the proportional “WenQuanYi Zen Hei”, and the monospaced typeface named “WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono”.
There are three methods to install fonts-wqy-zenhei on Debian 11. 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-wqy-zenhei 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-wqy-zenhei using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-wqy-zenhei
Install fonts-wqy-zenhei Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-wqy-zenhei using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-wqy-zenhei
Install fonts-wqy-zenhei 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-wqy-zenhei using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-wqy-zenhei
How To Uninstall fonts-wqy-zenhei on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fonts-wqy-zenhei package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-wqy-zenhei
Uninstall fonts-wqy-zenhei And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-wqy-zenhei and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-wqy-zenhei
Remove fonts-wqy-zenhei Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-wqy-zenhei configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-wqy-zenhei
Remove fonts-wqy-zenhei configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-wqy-zenhei configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-wqy-zenhei
Dependencies
fonts-wqy-zenhei have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-wqy-zenhei package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.