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

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. urw-base35-fonts.noarch is Core Font Set containing 35 freely distributable fonts from

Introduction

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

What is `urw-base35-fonts.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 meta-package will install all the 35 fonts from the urw-base35-fonts.

We can use yum to install urw-base35-fonts.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.noarch.

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

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

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

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

sudo yum remove urw-base35-fonts.noarch

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

/usr/share/appdata/de.urwpp.URWCoreFontSetLevel2.metainfo.xml

References

urw-base35-fonts.noarch website

Summary

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