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

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-gothic-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. urw-base35-gothic-fonts.noarch is URW Gothic font family [part of Level 2 Core Font Set]

Introduction

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

What is urw-base35-gothic-fonts.noarch

This package contains URW Gothic font family, which is part of Level 2 Core Font Set. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-urw-gothic.conf
/usr/share/appdata/de.urwpp.URWGothic.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-urw-gothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-Book.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-Book.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-Book.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-BookOblique.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-BookOblique.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-BookOblique.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-Demi.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-Demi.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-Demi.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-DemiOblique.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-DemiOblique.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWGothic-DemiOblique.t1

References

Summary

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