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.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gsfonts-x11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gsfonts-x11Install gsfonts-x11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gsfonts-x11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gsfonts-x11Install 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.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gsfonts-x11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gsfonts-x11How To Uninstall gsfonts-x11 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gsfonts-x11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gsfonts-x11Uninstall 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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gsfonts-x11Remove gsfonts-x11 Configurations and Data
To remove gsfonts-x11 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gsfonts-x11Remove 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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gsfonts-x11Dependencies
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.