How To Install t1lib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib on CentOS 8.
What is t1lib
T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11. AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install t1lib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install t1lib.
Install t1lib 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 t1lib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install t1lib
Install t1lib 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 t1lib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install t1lib
How To Uninstall t1lib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the t1lib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove t1lib
t1lib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/9d3fc81df29127a28aed36a4c31f25eb26be2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/ee906d631c227788ff351889e3f8ecec1a0b08
/usr/lib64/libt1.so.5
/usr/lib64/libt1.so.5.1.2
/usr/lib64/libt1x.so.5
/usr/lib64/libt1x.so.5.1.2
/usr/sbin/t1libconfig
/usr/share/doc/t1lib
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/Changes
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/README
/usr/share/man/man5/FontDatabase.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/t1libconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/t1lib
/usr/share/t1lib/FontDatabase
/usr/share/t1lib/t1lib.config
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
