How To Install dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8.

What is dejavu-fonts-common

The DejaVu font set is based on the “Bitstream Vera” fonts, release 1.10. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters, while maintaining the original style, using an open collaborative development process. This package consists of files used by other DejaVu packages.

We can use yum or dnf to install dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dejavu-fonts-common.

Install dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dejavu-fonts-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dejavu-fonts-common

Install dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dejavu-fonts-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dejavu-fonts-common

How To Uninstall dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the dejavu-fonts-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dejavu-fonts-common

dejavu-fonts-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/appdata/dejavu.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/status.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/unicover.txt

References

• dejavu-fonts-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.