How To Install wqy-unibit-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-unibit-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. wqy-unibit-fonts is WenQuanYi Unibit Bitmap Font

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-unibit-fonts on Rocky Linux 8.

What is wqy-unibit-fonts

The Wen Quan Yi Unibit is designed as a dual-width (16x16,16x8) bitmap font to provide the most complete international symbol coverage, serving as the system-wide fall-back font. This font has covered over 46000 Unicode code points in BMP. It is intended to supersede the outdated GNU Unifont. This font was created by merging the latest update of GNU Unifont [GPL] (by Roman Czyborra and David Starner et al., the font was last updated in 2004), WenQuanYi Bitmap Song [GPL] 0.8.1 (by Qianqian Fang and WenQuanYi contributors) and Fixed-16x8 [public domain] bitmap fonts from X11 core fonts. The entire CJK Unified Ideographics (U4E00-U9FA5) and CJK Unified Ideographics Extension A(U3400-U4DB5) blocks were replaced by high-quality glyphs from China National Standard GB19966-2005 (public domain). Near a thousand of non-CJK characters were improved by WenQuanYi contributors via their collaborative font editing website at http

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

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

sudo dnf -y install wqy-unibit-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install wqy-unibit-fonts

How To Uninstall wqy-unibit-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove wqy-unibit-fonts

wqy-unibit-fonts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/README
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-unibit
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-unibit/wqy-unibit.pcf

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Summary

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