How To Install t1lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. t1lib.i686 is PostScript Type 1 font rasterizer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `t1lib.i686`

T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11. AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible.

We can use yum to install t1lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install t1lib.i686.

Install t1lib.i686 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 t1lib.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install t1lib.i686

How To Uninstall t1lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the t1lib.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove t1lib.i686

t1lib.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libt1.so.5
/usr/lib/libt1.so.5.1.2
/usr/lib/libt1x.so.5
/usr/lib/libt1x.so.5.1.2
/usr/sbin/t1libconfig
/usr/share/doc/t1lib-5.1.2
/usr/share/doc/t1lib-5.1.2/Changes
/usr/share/doc/t1lib-5.1.2/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/t1lib-5.1.2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/t1lib-5.1.2/README
/usr/share/man/man5/FontDatabase.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/t1libconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/t1lib
/usr/share/t1lib/FontDatabase
/usr/share/t1lib/t1lib.config

References

t1lib.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.