How To Install open-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-sans-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. open-sans-fonts.noarch is Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve

Introduction

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

What is `open-sans-fonts.noarch`

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897 character set, which includes the standard ISO Latin 1, Latin CE, Greek and Cyrillic character sets. Open Sans was designed with an upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letter forms.

We can use yum to install open-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 open-sans-fonts.noarch.

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

sudo yum -y install open-sans-fonts.noarch

How To Uninstall open-sans-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove open-sans-fonts.noarch

open-sans-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-open-sans.conf
/usr/share/doc/open-sans-fonts-1.10
/usr/share/doc/open-sans-fonts-1.10/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-open-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Light.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-SemiboldItalic.ttf

References

open-sans-fonts.noarch website

Summary

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