How To Install wqy-bitmap-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-bitmap-fonts in Fedora 36. wqy-bitmap-fonts is WenQuanYi Bitmap Chinese Fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-bitmap-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is wqy-bitmap-fonts

WenQuanYi bitmap fonts include all 20,932 Unicode 5.2 CJK Unified Ideographs (U4E00 - U9FA5) and 6,582 CJK Extension A characters (U3400 - U4DB5) at 5 different pixel sizes (9pt-12X12, 10pt-13X13, 10.5pt-14x14, 11pt-15X15 and 12pt-16x16 pixel). Use of this bitmap font for on-screen display of Chinese (traditional and simplified) in web pages and elsewhere eliminates the annoying “blurring” problems caused by insufficient “hinting” of anti-aliased vector CJK fonts. In addition, Latin characters, Japanese Kanas and Korean Hangul glyphs (U+AC00~U+D7A3) are also included.

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

Install wqy-bitmap-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 wqy-bitmap-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wqy-bitmap-fonts

Install wqy-bitmap-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 wqy-bitmap-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wqy-bitmap-fonts

How To Uninstall wqy-bitmap-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the wqy-bitmap-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wqy-bitmap-fonts

wqy-bitmap-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-wqy-bitmapsong.conf
/usr/share/doc/wqy-bitmap-fonts
/usr/share/doc/wqy-bitmap-fonts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wqy-bitmap-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wqy-bitmap-fonts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wqy-bitmap-fonts/LOGO.png
/usr/share/doc/wqy-bitmap-fonts/README
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-wqy-bitmapsong.conf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmap
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmap/wenquanyi_10pt.pcf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmap/wenquanyi_11pt.pcf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmap/wenquanyi_12pt.pcf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmap/wenquanyi_13px.pcf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmap/wenquanyi_9pt.pcf

References

Summary

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