How to Install and Uninstall fontforge Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 18,2024

You can also install and uninstall the fontforge on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "fontforge" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install fontforge on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fontforge" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall fontforge on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fontforge package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: fontforge
Version: 1:20230101~dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 3980
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force
Architecture: amd64
Provides: fontforge-nox
Depends: fontforge-common (= 1:20230101~dfsg-1), libfontforge4 (= 1:20230101~dfsg-1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpython3.11 (>= 3.11.0)
Suggests: fontforge-doc, fontforge-extras, potrace, python3-fontforge
Conflicts: fontforge-nox
Description: font editor
Description-md5: 4ebffb1f6ab9a1d49bd81ce04ad8a0a7
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program,
scope::application, uitoolkit::gtk, uitoolkit::xlib, use::editing,
works-with::font, x11::application
Section: fonts
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fontforge/fontforge_20230101~dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1360652
MD5sum: e7acb7f3b38a96ef449b75b883d0cf31
SHA256: b6e6a46ead5f19f05f1d0c930afd5df8798732d5880fa51e5fb7b2c02acc9e55