How To Install gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch
Gnu FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatibility with all modern operating systems. Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems some of which are hard to find elsewhere. FreeFont also contains a large set of symbol characters, both technical and decorative. We are especially pleased with the Mathematical Operators range, with which most of the glyphs used in LaTeX can be displayed. This package contains the GNU FreeFont sans-serif font.
We can use yum to install gnu-free-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 gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch.
Install gnu-free-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 gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch
How To Uninstall gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch
gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-gnu-free-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-gnu-free-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSansBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSansOblique.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-free-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.