How To Install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch is Variable-width sans-serif font faces, Latin-Greek-Cyrillic subset

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch`

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 the DejaVu sans-serif variable-width font faces, with unicode coverage restricted to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

We can use yum to install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch.

Install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch

How To Uninstall dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch

dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-ExtraLight.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed.ttf

References

dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.