How To Install ttmkfdir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ttmkfdir.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ttmkfdir.x86_64 is Utility to create fonts.scale files for truetype fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ttmkfdir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ttmkfdir.x86_64`

ttmkfdir is a utility used to create fonts.scale files in TrueType font directories in order to prepare them for use by the font server.

We can use yum to install ttmkfdir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ttmkfdir.x86_64.

Install ttmkfdir.x86_64 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 ttmkfdir.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ttmkfdir.x86_64

How To Uninstall ttmkfdir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ttmkfdir.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ttmkfdir.x86_64

ttmkfdir.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ttmkfdir
/usr/share/doc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9
/usr/share/doc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9/README
/usr/share/man/man1/ttmkfdir.1.gz

References

ttmkfdir.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ttmkfdir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.