How To Install xfonts-marumoji on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-marumoji on Debian 9.
What is xfonts-marumoji
xfonts-marumoji is:
Japanese and ASCII roundish fonts (marumoji in Japanese) for X servers. It provides: maru14: JIS X0208.1983 Roundish Characters (14 dots) maru16: JIS X0208.1983 Roundish Characters (16 dots) 7x14rkmr: JIS X0201.1976 Roman Roundish Characters (14 dots) 7x14maru: ISO8859-1 Roundish Characters (14 dots)
There are three methods to install xfonts-marumoji 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 xfonts-marumoji Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-marumoji using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-marumoji
Install xfonts-marumoji Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-marumoji using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xfonts-marumoji
Install xfonts-marumoji 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 xfonts-marumoji using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xfonts-marumoji
How To Uninstall xfonts-marumoji on Debian 9
To uninstall only the xfonts-marumoji package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xfonts-marumoji
Uninstall xfonts-marumoji And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xfonts-marumoji and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfonts-marumoji
Remove xfonts-marumoji Configurations and Data
To remove xfonts-marumoji configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xfonts-marumoji
Remove xfonts-marumoji configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xfonts-marumoji configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfonts-marumoji
Dependencies
xfonts-marumoji have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-marumoji package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.