How To Install libwoff-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwoff-dev
on Debian 11.
What is libwoff-dev
libwoff-dev is:
woff2 is a library for converting fonts from the TTF format to the WOFF 2.0 format. The library also allows decompression from WOFF 2.0 to TTF.
The WOFF 2.0 format uses the Brotli compression algorithm to compress fonts suitable for use in CSS @font-face rules. WOFF 2.0 is a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libwoff-dev
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 libwoff-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 libwoff-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwoff-dev
Install libwoff-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwoff-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwoff-dev
Install libwoff-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 libwoff-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwoff-dev
How To Uninstall libwoff-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libwoff-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwoff-dev
Uninstall libwoff-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwoff-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwoff-dev
Remove libwoff-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libwoff-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwoff-dev
Remove libwoff-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwoff-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwoff-dev
Dependencies
libwoff-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwoff-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.