How To Install pango1.0-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pango1.0-tools on Kali Linux.
What is pango1.0-tools
pango1.0-tools is:
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed. However, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+ 2.0.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:
- Core X windowing system fonts
- Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
- Native fonts on Microsoft backends.
This package contains pango-view, the Pango text viewer, and pango-list, a utility that outputs a list of compatible system fonts.
There are three methods to install pango1.0-tools 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 pango1.0-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pango1.0-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pango1.0-toolsInstall pango1.0-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pango1.0-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pango1.0-toolsInstall pango1.0-tools 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pango1.0-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pango1.0-toolsHow To Uninstall pango1.0-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the pango1.0-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pango1.0-toolsUninstall pango1.0-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pango1.0-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pango1.0-toolsRemove pango1.0-tools Configurations and Data
To remove pango1.0-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pango1.0-toolsRemove pango1.0-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pango1.0-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pango1.0-toolsDependencies
pango1.0-tools have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libglib2.0-0
- libharfbuzz0b
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libpangoxft-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxft2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pango1.0-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
