How To Install grcompiler on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grcompiler on Kali Linux.
What is grcompiler
grcompiler is:
SILGraphite is a system that can be used to create and use “smart fonts” capable of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors, such as: contextual shaping, ligatures, reordering, split glyphs, bidirectionality, stacking diacritics and complex positioning.
This library was designed and developed by the NRSI (Non-Roman Script Initiative) within SIL International (www.sil.org) to act as a complement to other smart font rendering technologies with limited practical local extensibility. Its purpose is to help meet the needs of a very large number of “minority language” communities for local extensibility of complex script behaviors.
The behavior of the SILGraphite rendering engine for a given writing system is specified through extra tables added to a TrueType font. These tables are generated by compiling a GDL (Graphite Description Language) source file into a font using grcompiler.
This package contains the graphite compiler.
There are three methods to install grcompiler 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 grcompiler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install grcompiler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grcompilerInstall grcompiler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install grcompiler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grcompilerInstall grcompiler 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install grcompiler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grcompilerHow To Uninstall grcompiler on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the grcompiler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grcompilerUninstall grcompiler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grcompiler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grcompilerRemove grcompiler Configurations and Data
To remove grcompiler configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grcompilerRemove grcompiler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grcompiler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grcompilerDependencies
grcompiler have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grcompiler package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.