How To Install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts is SIL Gentium Book Basic font family

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/).