How To Install libfcft3 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft3 on Debian 11.
What is libfcft3
libfcft3 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 shared libraries.
There are three methods to install libfcft3 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libfcft3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libfcft3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libfcft3
Install libfcft3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libfcft3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libfcft3
Install libfcft3 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 libfcft3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libfcft3
How To Uninstall libfcft3 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libfcft3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libfcft3
Uninstall libfcft3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libfcft3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfcft3
Remove libfcft3 Configurations and Data
To remove libfcft3 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libfcft3
Remove libfcft3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libfcft3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfcft3
Dependencies
libfcft3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfcft3 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
