How To Install gfs-didot-display-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-didot-display-fonts in Fedora 36. gfs-didot-display-fonts is GFS Didot Display, a 20th century Greek decorative font family

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-didot-display-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `gfs-didot-display-fonts`

GFS Didot Display is a fat version of the Greek Didot. Found in several publications, mainly as a headline font since the 1840s. At certain occasions it was used in text columns for newspaper typesetting. The typeface was digitized by George Triantafyllakos based on samples found in Greek newspapers from the ’50s and from the Specimens Catalogue of Linotype Co.

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

Install gfs-didot-display-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 gfs-didot-display-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gfs-didot-display-fonts

Install gfs-didot-display-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 gfs-didot-display-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gfs-didot-display-fonts

How To Uninstall gfs-didot-display-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gfs-didot-display-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gfs-didot-display-fonts

gfs-didot-display-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-gfs-didot-display-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/gfs-didot-display-fonts
/usr/share/doc/gfs-didot-display-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-gfs-didot-display-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-didot-display-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-didot-display-fonts/GFS_Didot_Display.otf
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-didot-display-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-didot-display-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.gfs-didot-display-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

gfs-didot-display-fonts website

Summary

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