How To Install fontpackages-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-filesystem.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. fontpackages-filesystem.noarch is Directories used by font packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is fontpackages-filesystem.noarch

This package contains the basic directory layout used by font packages, including the correct permissions for the directories.

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

Install fontpackages-filesystem.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 fontpackages-filesystem.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontpackages-filesystem.noarch

How To Uninstall fontpackages-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fontpackages-filesystem.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fontpackages-filesystem.noarch

fontpackages-filesystem.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts
/etc/fonts/conf.d
/usr/share/fontconfig
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail
/usr/share/fonts

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Summary

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