How To Install toilet-fonts on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install toilet-fonts on Debian 9.
What is toilet-fonts
toilet-fonts is:
TOIlet prints text using large characters made of smaller characters. It is similar in many ways to FIGlet with additional features such as Unicode handling, colour fonts, filters and various export formats.
This package contains a set of TOIlet-specific fonts.
There are three methods to install toilet-fonts on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install toilet-fonts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install toilet-fonts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install toilet-fonts
Install toilet-fonts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install toilet-fonts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install toilet-fonts
Install toilet-fonts 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 toilet-fonts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install toilet-fonts
How To Uninstall toilet-fonts on Debian 9
To uninstall only the toilet-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove toilet-fonts
Uninstall toilet-fonts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall toilet-fonts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove toilet-fonts
Remove toilet-fonts Configurations and Data
To remove toilet-fonts configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge toilet-fonts
Remove toilet-fonts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove toilet-fonts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toilet-fonts
Dependencies
toilet-fonts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install toilet-fonts package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.