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

Introduction

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

What is liberation-fonts-common

The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the 3 most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems Shared common files of Liberation font families.

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

Install liberation-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 liberation-fonts-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liberation-fonts-common

Install liberation-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 liberation-fonts-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liberation-fonts-common

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

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

sudo dnf remove liberation-fonts-common

liberation-fonts-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/appdata/liberation.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/liberation-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/liberation-fonts-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/liberation-fonts-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/liberation-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/doc/liberation-fonts-common/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/liberation-fonts-common
/usr/share/licenses/liberation-fonts-common/LICENSE

References

• liberation-fonts-common website

Summary

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