How To Install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts in Fedora 36. gdouros-aegyptus-fonts is A font for Egyptian hieroglyphs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is gdouros-aegyptus-fonts

Aegyptus contains an Extended List of 7062 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, in regular and bold font weights. There is no standard for Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Meroitic, so they are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. The fonts also cover Basic Latin and some Punctuation and other Symbols. They were created by George Douros, mainly based on the book Hieroglyphica, PIREI I², 2000 and the work of Alan Gardiner.

We can use yum or dnf to install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts.

Install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts

Install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts

How To Uninstall gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gdouros-aegyptus-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gdouros-aegyptus-fonts

gdouros-aegyptus-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-gdouros-aegyptus.conf
/usr/share/doc/gdouros-aegyptus-fonts
/usr/share/doc/gdouros-aegyptus-fonts/Aegyptus.pdf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-gdouros-aegyptus.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-aegyptus
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-aegyptus/AegyptusB.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-aegyptus/AegyptusR.ttf
/usr/share/metainfo/gdouros-aegyptus.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdouros-aegyptus-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).