How To Install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8

adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts is Adobe OpenType Pan-CJK font family for Japanese

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts

Source Han Sans is a set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts.

We can use yum or dnf to install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts.

Install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts

Install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts

How To Uninstall adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts

adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/68-adobe-source-han-sans-jp.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/68-adobe-source-han-sans-jp.conf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-Bold.otf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-ExtraLight.otf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-Heavy.otf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-Light.otf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-Medium.otf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-Normal.otf
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-han-sans-jp/SourceHanSansJP-Regular.otf
/usr/share/licenses/adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.