How To Install libotf0-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libotf0-dbg
on Debian 9.
What is libotf0-dbg
libotf0-dbg is:
The libotf library provides the following facilities:
- Read Open Type Layout Tables from OTF file. Currently these tables are supported; head, name, cmap, GDEF, GSUB, and GPOS.
- Convert a Unicode character sequence to a glyph code sequence by using the above tables.
The combination of libotf and the FreeType library (Ver.2) realizes CTL (complex text layout) by OpenType fonts.
This package contains unstripped shared libraries. it is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. The libraries are installed in /usr/lib/debug and can be used by placing that directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Most people will not need this package.
There are three methods to install libotf0-dbg
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 libotf0-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libotf0-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libotf0-dbg
Install libotf0-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libotf0-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libotf0-dbg
Install libotf0-dbg 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 libotf0-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libotf0-dbg
How To Uninstall libotf0-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libotf0-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libotf0-dbg
Uninstall libotf0-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libotf0-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libotf0-dbg
Remove libotf0-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libotf0-dbg
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libotf0-dbg
Remove libotf0-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libotf0-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libotf0-dbg
Dependencies
libotf0-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libotf0-dbg
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.