How To Install vflib3-doc on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vflib3-doc
on Debian 10.
What is vflib3-doc
vflib3-doc is:
VFlib3 is a font rasterizer library for multi-lingual information processing. Using VFlib3, you can obtain bitmap data of characters(glyphs) from various fonts in a unified manner.
VFlib3 can handle almost all font formats available - it now supports PK, GF, VF, TFM, OFM level 0, OVF, PCF, BDF, HBF, Syotai-Club, JG, eKanji and more. TrueType and Type 1 fonts are also supported via FreeType2. Font search via kpathsea is supported, too.
This package contains the VFlib3 documentation in various formats.
There are three methods to install vflib3-doc
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 vflib3-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vflib3-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vflib3-doc
Install vflib3-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vflib3-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vflib3-doc
Install vflib3-doc 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 vflib3-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vflib3-doc
How To Uninstall vflib3-doc on Debian 10
To uninstall only the vflib3-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vflib3-doc
Uninstall vflib3-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vflib3-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vflib3-doc
Remove vflib3-doc Configurations and Data
To remove vflib3-doc
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vflib3-doc
Remove vflib3-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vflib3-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vflib3-doc
Dependencies
vflib3-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vflib3-doc
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.