How To Install gsfonts-x11 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsfonts-x11
on Kali Linux.
What is gsfonts-x11
gsfonts-x11 is:
This package makes the 35 PostScript fonts from the gsfonts package available to your X server under their “urw” names and via fonts.alias with the official “adobe” names, too.
This package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse the ghostscript fonts as X11 screen fonts.
There are three methods to install gsfonts-x11
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 gsfonts-x11 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gsfonts-x11
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install gsfonts-x11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gsfonts-x11
using apt
by running the following command:
Install gsfonts-x11 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.
After updating apt database, We can install gsfonts-x11
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gsfonts-x11 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gsfonts-x11
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall gsfonts-x11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gsfonts-x11
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove gsfonts-x11 Configurations and Data
To remove gsfonts-x11
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove gsfonts-x11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gsfonts-x11
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
gsfonts-x11 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsfonts-x11
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.