How To Install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
on Fedora 36.
What is sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic are font families based on the original Gentium design, but with additional weights. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold italic set of fonts. These “Basic” fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. The “Book” family is slightly heavier.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts.
Install sil-gentium-basic-book-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-gentium-basic-book-fonts
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
Install sil-gentium-basic-book-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-gentium-basic-book-fonts
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
How To Uninstall sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/59-sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/59-sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts/GenBkBasB.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts/GenBkBasBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts/GenBkBasI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts/GenBkBasR.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).