How To Install freetype on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on Rocky Linux 8. freetype is A free and portable font rendering engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on Rocky Linux 8.

What is freetype

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

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

Install freetype 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 freetype using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freetype

Install freetype 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 freetype using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freetype

How To Uninstall freetype on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the freetype package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freetype

freetype Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/7871cdca4d48028b82b1d2a8fd1a2fffe453f0
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.16.1
/usr/share/doc/freetype
/usr/share/doc/freetype/README
/usr/share/licenses/freetype
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/fc06c4e6b5af7e32613447e4a7a34e0ceb7721
/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.16.1
/usr/share/doc/freetype
/usr/share/doc/freetype/README
/usr/share/licenses/freetype
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/LICENSE.TXT

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.