How To Install libfcft-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft-dev on Debian 12.
What is libfcft-dev
libfcft-dev is:
fcft is a small font loading and glyph rasterization library built on-top of FontConfig, FreeType2 and pixman.
It can load and cache fonts from a fontconfig-formatted name string, e.g. Monospace:size=12, optionally with user configured fallback fonts.
After a font has been loaded, you can rasterize glyphs. When doing so, the primary font is first considered. If it does not have the requested glyph, the user configured fallback fonts (if any) are considered. If none of the user configured fallback fonts has the requested glyph, the FontConfig generated list of fallback fonts are checked.
This package contains the header and development files.
There are three methods to install libfcft-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libfcft-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libfcft-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libfcft-dev
Install libfcft-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libfcft-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libfcft-dev
Install libfcft-dev 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 libfcft-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libfcft-dev
How To Uninstall libfcft-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libfcft-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libfcft-dev
Uninstall libfcft-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libfcft-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfcft-dev
Remove libfcft-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libfcft-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libfcft-dev
Remove libfcft-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libfcft-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfcft-dev
Dependencies
libfcft-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
