How To Install python-nototools on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-nototools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-nototools is font support tools from the Noto Fonts project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-nototools on Debian 10.

What is python-nototools

python-nototools is:

Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.

The name “Noto” is short for “No Tofu”, describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts.

Tofu (???) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character “??” (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.

This package contains Python scripts used to maintain the fonts.

There are three methods to install python-nototools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-nototools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-nototools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-nototools

Install python-nototools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-nototools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-nototools

Install python-nototools 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 python-nototools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-nototools

How To Uninstall python-nototools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-nototools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-nototools

Uninstall python-nototools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-nototools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-nototools

Remove python-nototools Configurations and Data

To remove python-nototools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-nototools

Remove python-nototools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-nototools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-nototools

Dependencies

python-nototools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-nototools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.