How To Install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib on Kali Linux.
What is xfonts-efont-unicode-ib
xfonts-efont-unicode-ib is:
/efont/ is an X BDF font package for 10, 12, 14, 16, and 24 pixels which are encoded in Unicode. Though they are still under development, they contain various scripts including Latin, IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai, Lao, Georgian, Runic, Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul Syllables, and part of Arabic, Bopomofo, CJK Ideogram, and various symbols.
This package contains italic, bold, and italic-bold fonts. You may want to install xfonts-efont-unicode package for non-itallic medium fonts.
There are three methods to install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib 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 xfonts-efont-unicode-ib Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-efont-unicode-ibInstall xfonts-efont-unicode-ib Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xfonts-efont-unicode-ibInstall xfonts-efont-unicode-ib 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xfonts-efont-unicode-ibHow To Uninstall xfonts-efont-unicode-ib on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the xfonts-efont-unicode-ib package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xfonts-efont-unicode-ibUninstall xfonts-efont-unicode-ib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xfonts-efont-unicode-ib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfonts-efont-unicode-ibRemove xfonts-efont-unicode-ib Configurations and Data
To remove xfonts-efont-unicode-ib configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xfonts-efont-unicode-ibRemove xfonts-efont-unicode-ib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xfonts-efont-unicode-ib configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfonts-efont-unicode-ibDependencies
xfonts-efont-unicode-ib have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
