How To Install gnome-font-viewer on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer
on Debian 9.
What is gnome-font-viewer
gnome-font-viewer is:
This program can preview fonts and create thumbnails for fonts.
There are three methods to install gnome-font-viewer
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-font-viewer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-font-viewer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-font-viewer
Install gnome-font-viewer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-font-viewer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-font-viewer
Install gnome-font-viewer 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 gnome-font-viewer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-font-viewer
How To Uninstall gnome-font-viewer on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnome-font-viewer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-font-viewer
Uninstall gnome-font-viewer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-font-viewer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-font-viewer
Remove gnome-font-viewer Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-font-viewer
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-font-viewer
Remove gnome-font-viewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-font-viewer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-font-viewer
Dependencies
gnome-font-viewer have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-desktop-3-12
- libgtk-3-0
- libharfbuzz0b
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.