How To Install texlive-fonts-extra-links on Debian 12

Learn how to install texlive-fonts-extra-links on Debian 12 with this tutorial. texlive-fonts-extra-links is TeX Live

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fonts-extra-links on Debian 12.

texlive-fonts-extra-links is:

This package ships links to all the fonts that are originally in TeX Live, collection fonts-extra, but are not shipped in the Debian package texlive-fonts-extra due to availability in separate packages. . For documents searching these fonts by file name instead of using fontconfig lookups, the font files need to be linked into the TEXMF tree of TeX Live. This package ships these links and depends on all the font packages required.

There are three methods to install texlive-fonts-extra-links 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-fonts-extra-links using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-fonts-extra-links

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-fonts-extra-links using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install texlive-fonts-extra-links

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 texlive-fonts-extra-links using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install texlive-fonts-extra-links

To uninstall only the texlive-fonts-extra-links package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove texlive-fonts-extra-links

To uninstall texlive-fonts-extra-links and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-fonts-extra-links

To remove texlive-fonts-extra-links configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-fonts-extra-links

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-fonts-extra-links

Dependencies

texlive-fonts-extra-links have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fonts-extra-links package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.