How To Install fontconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fontconfig.x86_64 is Font configuration and customization library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fontconfig.x86_64`

Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.

We can use yum to install fontconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontconfig.x86_64.

Install fontconfig.x86_64 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 fontconfig.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontconfig.x86_64

How To Uninstall fontconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fontconfig.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fontconfig.x86_64

fontconfig.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/25-no-bitmap-fedora.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/README
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/usr/bin/fc-cache
/usr/bin/fc-cache-64
/usr/bin/fc-cat
/usr/bin/fc-conflist
/usr/bin/fc-list
/usr/bin/fc-match
/usr/bin/fc-pattern
/usr/bin/fc-query
/usr/bin/fc-scan
/usr/bin/fc-validate
/usr/lib/fontconfig/cache
/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.11.1
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.13.0
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.13.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.13.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.13.0/README
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.13.0/fontconfig-user.html
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.13.0/fontconfig-user.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-medium.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-none.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-no-sub-pixel.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-unhinted.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-light.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/45-generic.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/45-latin.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-user.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/51-local.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-generic.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-latin.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-khmer.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fontconfig-conf.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fontconfig.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-conflist.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-match.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-pattern.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-query.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-scan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fc-validate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz
/usr/share/xml/fontconfig
/usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd

References

fontconfig.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.