How To Install open-font-design-toolkit on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-font-design-toolkit on Kali Linux. open-font-design-toolkit is metapackage for open font design

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-font-design-toolkit on Kali Linux.

What is open-font-design-toolkit

open-font-design-toolkit is:

This package provides all tools needed to design, adapt, improve and hack on open fonts, including recommendations for the ones needed to do font design in a collaborative manner using VCS (version control systems).

A growing number of high-quality fonts are released under the Open Font License (or similar recognized font-specific licenses) to allow distributing, modifying, improving and branching by others including adding new glyphs and smart behaviours, extending the Unicode coverage, improving hinting and allowing new languages to be supported on the free desktop and, of course, fixing bugs.

The various OFL’ed fonts are listed at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts and at http://unifont.org/fontguide

Further resources, tools and documentation about font design, writing systems implementations and packaging can be found on these website from the open font community:

There are three methods to install open-font-design-toolkit on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install open-font-design-toolkit Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install open-font-design-toolkit using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install open-font-design-toolkit

Install open-font-design-toolkit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install open-font-design-toolkit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install open-font-design-toolkit

Install open-font-design-toolkit Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install open-font-design-toolkit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install open-font-design-toolkit

How To Uninstall open-font-design-toolkit on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the open-font-design-toolkit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove open-font-design-toolkit

Uninstall open-font-design-toolkit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall open-font-design-toolkit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove open-font-design-toolkit

Remove open-font-design-toolkit Configurations and Data

To remove open-font-design-toolkit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge open-font-design-toolkit

Remove open-font-design-toolkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove open-font-design-toolkit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge open-font-design-toolkit

Dependencies

open-font-design-toolkit have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-font-design-toolkit package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.