How To Install fontawesome-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. fontawesome-fonts.noarch is Iconic font set

Introduction

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

What is `fontawesome-fonts.noarch`

Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. This package contains OpenType and TrueType font files which are typically used locally.

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

Install fontawesome-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 fontawesome-fonts.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontawesome-fonts.noarch

How To Uninstall fontawesome-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fontawesome-fonts.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fontawesome-fonts.noarch

fontawesome-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-fontawesome.conf
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome-fonts-4.1.0
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome-fonts-4.1.0/README-Trademarks.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-fontawesome.conf
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/FontAwesome.otf
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf

References

fontawesome-fonts.noarch website

Summary

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