How To Install texlive-font-utils on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-font-utils on Kali Linux. texlive-font-utils is TeX Live

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-font-utils on Kali Linux.

What is texlive-font-utils

texlive-font-utils is:

Programs for conversion between font formats, testing fonts, virtual fonts, .gf and .pk manipulation, mft, fontinst, etc. Manipulating OpenType, TrueType, Type 1,and for manipulation of PostScript and other image formats.

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

accfonts – Utilities to derive new fonts from existing ones

afm2pl – AFM font metrics to TeX pl converter.

albatross – Find fonts that contain a given glyph

dosepsbin – Deal with DOS binary EPS files

dvipsconfig – Collection of dvips PostScript headers

epstopdf – Convert EPS to PDF using Ghostscript

fontinst – Help with installing fonts for TeX and LaTeX

fontools – Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)

fontware – Tools for virtual font metrics

metatype1 – Generate Type 1 fonts from MetaPost

mf2pt1 – Convert stylized Metafont to PostScript Type 1

ps2eps – Produce Encapsulated PostScript from PostScript

ps2pk – Generate a PK font from an Adobe Type 1 font

ttfutils – convert TrueType to TFM and PK fonts

There are three methods to install texlive-font-utils 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 texlive-font-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-font-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-font-utils

Install texlive-font-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-font-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install texlive-font-utils

Install texlive-font-utils 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 texlive-font-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install texlive-font-utils

How To Uninstall texlive-font-utils on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the texlive-font-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove texlive-font-utils

Uninstall texlive-font-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-font-utils

Remove texlive-font-utils Configurations and Data

To remove texlive-font-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-font-utils

Remove texlive-font-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-font-utils

Dependencies

texlive-font-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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