fonts-symbola software package provides symbolic font providing emoji characters from Unicode 7.0, you can install in your Debian 9 (Stretch) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fonts-symbola
fonts-symbola is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fonts-symbola package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-symbola *
You will get with fonts-symbola package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 9 stretch |
| Section | Fonts |
| Package | fonts-symbola |
| Version | 2.59-1 |
| Description | symbolic font providing emoji characters from Unicode 7.0 |
| Sub Section | Fonts |
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