How To Install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch is Common files of the (URW)++ Level 2 Core Font Set

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch

The Level 2 Core Font Set is a PostScript specification of 35 base fonts that can be used with any PostScript file. In Fedora, these fonts are provided freely by (URW)++ company, and are mainly utilized by applications using Ghostscript. This package contains the necessary license files for this font set.

We can use yum to install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch.

Install urw-base35-fonts-common.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 urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch

How To Uninstall urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch

urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-urw-fallback-backwards.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-urw-fallback-backwards.conf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35
/usr/share/licenses/urw-base35-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/urw-base35-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/urw-base35-fonts/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.