How To Install fira-code-fonts on CentOS 8

fira-code-fonts is Monospaced font with programming ligatures

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fira-code-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is fira-code-fonts

Fira Code is an extension of the Fira Mono font containing a set of ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, ligatures allow us to correct spacing.

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

Install fira-code-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 fira-code-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fira-code-fonts

Install fira-code-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 fira-code-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fira-code-fonts

How To Uninstall fira-code-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fira-code-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fira-code-fonts

fira-code-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-fira-code.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-fira-code.conf
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code/FiraCode-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code/FiraCode-Light.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code/FiraCode-Medium.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code/FiraCode-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code/FiraCode-Retina.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/fira-code/FiraCode-SemiBold.ttf
/usr/share/metainfo/fira-code.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fira-code-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.