How To Install t1-cyrillic on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install t1-cyrillic on Kali Linux.

What is t1-cyrillic

t1-cyrillic is:

This package includes free Type1 fonts for the following font families: Free Times, Free Helvetian, Free Helvetian Condensed, Free Courier, Free Avant Garde, Free Paladin, Free Schoolbook, Free Bookman and Free Chancery.

These fonts cover the Latin1 and Latin2 character sets and partially the most popular Cyrillic character sets.

The fonts look like the fonts in the Adobe basic set of PostScript fonts, but the font names are customized to avoid any trademark infringements.

There are three methods to install t1-cyrillic 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 t1-cyrillic Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install t1-cyrillic using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install t1-cyrillic

Install t1-cyrillic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install t1-cyrillic using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install t1-cyrillic

Install t1-cyrillic 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 t1-cyrillic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install t1-cyrillic

How To Uninstall t1-cyrillic on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the t1-cyrillic package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove t1-cyrillic

Uninstall t1-cyrillic And Its Dependencies

To uninstall t1-cyrillic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove t1-cyrillic

Remove t1-cyrillic Configurations and Data

To remove t1-cyrillic configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge t1-cyrillic

Remove t1-cyrillic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove t1-cyrillic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge t1-cyrillic

Dependencies

t1-cyrillic have the following dependencies:

• xfonts-utils

References

• t1-cyrillic website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install t1-cyrillic package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.