How To Install ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch is Japanese Proportional Gothic-typeface OpenType font by IPA

Introduction

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

What is `ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch`

IPA Font is a Japanese OpenType fonts that is JIS X 0213 compliant, provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. This package contains Proportional Gothic (sans-serif) style font.

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

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

sudo yum -y install ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch

How To Uninstall ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch

ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-2-ipa-pgothic.conf
/usr/share/doc/ipa-pgothic-fonts-003.03
/usr/share/doc/ipa-pgothic-fonts-003.03/IPA_Font_License_Agreement_v1.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/ipa-pgothic-fonts-003.03/Readme_ipagp00303.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-2-ipa-pgothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/ipa-pgothic
/usr/share/fonts/ipa-pgothic/ipagp.ttf

References

ipa-pgothic-fonts.noarch website

Summary

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