How To Install sil-gentium-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is sil-gentium-fonts
SIL Gentium (“belonging to the nations” in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets. This package consists of the main SIL Gentium family.
We can use yum or dnf to install sil-gentium-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-gentium-fonts.
Install sil-gentium-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-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sil-gentium-fonts
Install sil-gentium-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-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sil-gentium-fonts
How To Uninstall sil-gentium-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the sil-gentium-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sil-gentium-fonts
sil-gentium-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/appdata/sil-gentium.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium/GenI102.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium/GenR102.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
