How To Install fontopia on Fedora 34

fontopia is The console font editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontopia on Fedora 34.

What is fontopia

Fontopia is an easy-to-use, text-based, console font editor. Fontopia is not only a conversion tool, it includes complete features to re-size and manipulate glyphs, edit font metrics and other meta-data. Unlike other console font tools, fontopia works on both PSF 1 & 2, PCF, CP and Raw fonts. Type conversion is as simple as changing font type in memory and saving it to disk in the other version. Fontopia allows exporting and importing of Unicode tables from external files or other fonts. It provides a user-friendly, easy-to-use glyph editor. It can easily change font metrics, e.g. length, width, height, etc. It performs basic glyph operations like inversion, flipping, setting/unsetting bits, and much more. Fontopia is the first dedicated text-based editor for console fonts.

We can use yum or dnf to install fontopia on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontopia.

Install fontopia on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fontopia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fontopia

Install fontopia on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fontopia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontopia

How To Uninstall fontopia on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the fontopia package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fontopia

fontopia Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fontopia
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/1bc5fbb13e19e9819678b23aebba9e01036dd6
/usr/share/doc/fontopia
/usr/share/doc/fontopia/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fontopia/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fontopia/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fontopia/README
/usr/share/doc/fontopia/READMEkeys
/usr/share/doc/fontopia/THANKS
/usr/share/info/fontopia.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/fontopia
/usr/share/licenses/fontopia/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fontopia.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontopia on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.