How To Install xfonts-tipa on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-tipa on Kali Linux.

What is xfonts-tipa

xfonts-tipa is:

TIPA is a system for processing IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols in LaTeX written by Fukui Rei. TIPA stands for either TeX IPA or Tokyo IPA and derived from the tsipa package, made in 1992 by Kobayashi Hajime, Fukui Rei and Shirakawa Shun.

This package contains type 1 version of the TIPA fonts for the X Window system. It contains the pfb and afm files. The installed X font has the silipa encoding (see http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html).

There are three methods to install xfonts-tipa 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-tipa 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-tipa using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-tipa

Install xfonts-tipa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-tipa using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install xfonts-tipa

Install xfonts-tipa 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install xfonts-tipa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xfonts-tipa

How To Uninstall xfonts-tipa on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the xfonts-tipa package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xfonts-tipa

Uninstall xfonts-tipa And Its Dependencies

To uninstall xfonts-tipa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xfonts-tipa

Remove xfonts-tipa Configurations and Data

To remove xfonts-tipa configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xfonts-tipa

Remove xfonts-tipa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove xfonts-tipa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xfonts-tipa

Dependencies

xfonts-tipa have the following dependencies:

• tipa

References

• xfonts-tipa website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfonts-tipa package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.