How To Install unifont-bin on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unifont-bin on Debian 10.
What is unifont-bin
unifont-bin is:
This is a set of Perl scripts, C programs, and FontForge scripts to manipulate Roman Czyborra’s GNU Unifont “.hex” format font files. GNU Unifont has a Unicode-compatible font structure. These utilities allow editing “.hex” fonts with text and graphical editors, producing final versions of fonts in BDF, PCF, PSF, TrueType SBIT, and TrueType outline formats.
To build the TrueType fonts, install the package ‘fontforge’. To build the PCF fonts, use ‘bdftopcf’, which is in the ‘xfonts-utils’ package. To build the PSF font, use ‘bdf2psf’, which is in the ‘console-setup’ package. To obtain the font sources, run ‘apt-get source unifont’.
Building the main Unifont TrueType font will require at least 4 GB of main memory. You only need texlive (~1 GB) if you want to rebuild the unifont.pdf file in doc/ (see doc/Makefile); this is not done by default.
There are three methods to install unifont-bin on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install unifont-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unifont-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unifont-bin
Install unifont-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unifont-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unifont-bin
Install unifont-bin 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 unifont-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unifont-bin
How To Uninstall unifont-bin on Debian 10
To uninstall only the unifont-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unifont-bin
Uninstall unifont-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unifont-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unifont-bin
Remove unifont-bin Configurations and Data
To remove unifont-bin configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unifont-bin
Remove unifont-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unifont-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unifont-bin
Dependencies
unifont-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unifont-bin package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.