How To Install python3-glyphsets on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-glyphsets on Debian 12.
What is python3-glyphsets
python3-glyphsets is:
This Python module provides an API with data about glyph sets for many different scripts and languages. This was crafted to specify the sets of characters that fonts in the Google Fonts collection are expected to provide glyphs for.
If you are a font developer or typeface designer, see the Lib/glyphsets/encodings/GF Glyph Sets subdirectory which provides glyph set definition “standards” that are typically useful sets to draw.
On the other hand, the “nam” files on the Lib/glyphsets/encodings directory are probably more useful for expert web developers. Those files explain how the Unicode Range subsets are defined, typically per script (writing system), in the Google Fonts css API. Python API for evaluating coverage of glyph sets in font projects.
There are three methods to install python3-glyphsets on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-glyphsets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-glyphsets using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-glyphsets
Install python3-glyphsets Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-glyphsets using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-glyphsets
Install python3-glyphsets 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 python3-glyphsets using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-glyphsets
How To Uninstall python3-glyphsets on Debian 12
To uninstall only the python3-glyphsets package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-glyphsets
Uninstall python3-glyphsets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-glyphsets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-glyphsets
Remove python3-glyphsets Configurations and Data
To remove python3-glyphsets configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-glyphsets
Remove python3-glyphsets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-glyphsets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-glyphsets
Dependencies
python3-glyphsets have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-glyphsets package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
