How To Install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font family supporting a wide variety of languages of southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This font is aimed at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq fonts. Nastaliq, based on a centuries-old calligraphic tradition, is considered one of the most beautiful scripts on the planet. Nastaliq has been called “the bride of calligraphy” but its complexity also makes it one of the most difficult scripts to render using a computer font. Its right-to-left direction, vertical nature, and context-specific shaping provide a challenge to any font rendering engine and make it much more difficult to render than the flat (Naskh) Arabic script that it is based on. As a result, font developers have long struggled to produce a font with the correct shaping but at the same time avoid overlapping of dots and diacritics. In order to account for the seemingly infinite variations, the Graphite rendering engine has been extended just to handle these complexities properly.
We can use yum or dnf to install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts.
Install sil-awami-nastaliq-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 sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
Install sil-awami-nastaliq-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 sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
How To Uninstall sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/AwamiNastaliq-Features.odt
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/AwamiNastaliq-TypeSample.odt
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/DOCUMENTATION.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/AwamiNastaliq-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
