How To Install gwaterfall on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gwaterfall on Debian 9.
What is gwaterfall
gwaterfall is:
This program facilitates comparison of various fonts and font rendering parameters.
It displays sample lines of text in sizes from 5 to 36px simultaneously and allows changing of font size range and increment, hinting, autohinting, anti-aliasing, subpixel smoothing, and aspect, immediately showing the changes on the screen. All Unicode characters are divided into blocks of 128 characters, and user can choose block of 128 characters to use as sample line of text.
There are three methods to install gwaterfall 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 gwaterfall Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gwaterfall using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gwaterfall
Install gwaterfall Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gwaterfall using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gwaterfall
Install gwaterfall 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 gwaterfall using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gwaterfall
How To Uninstall gwaterfall on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gwaterfall package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gwaterfall
Uninstall gwaterfall And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gwaterfall and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gwaterfall
Remove gwaterfall Configurations and Data
To remove gwaterfall configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gwaterfall
Remove gwaterfall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gwaterfall configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gwaterfall
Dependencies
gwaterfall have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libxft2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gwaterfall package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.