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

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. urw-fonts.noarch is Free versions of the 35 standard PostScript fonts.

Introduction

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

What is `urw-fonts.noarch`

Free, good quality versions of the 35 standard PostScript(TM) fonts, donated under the GPL by URW++ Design and Development GmbH. Install the urw-fonts package if you need free versions of standard PostScript fonts.

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

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

sudo yum -y install urw-fonts.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove urw-fonts.noarch

urw-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/fontpath.d/fonts-default
/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts-2.4
/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts-2.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts-2.4/README
/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts-2.4/README.tweaks
/usr/share/fonts/default
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010013l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010013l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010015l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010015l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010033l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010033l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010035l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010035l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018012l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018012l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018015l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018015l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018032l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018032l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018035l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/b018035l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059013l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059013l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059016l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059016l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059033l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059033l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059036l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059036l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/d050000l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/d050000l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/encodings.dir
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.cache-1
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.dir
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.scale
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019004l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019004l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019023l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019023l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019024l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019024l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019043l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019043l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019044l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019044l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019063l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019063l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019064l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019064l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021004l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021004l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021023l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021023l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021024l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021024l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022003l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022003l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022023l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022023l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022024l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022024l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052003l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052003l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052004l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052004l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052023l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052023l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052024l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052024l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/s050000l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/s050000l.pfb
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/z003034l.afm
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/z003034l.pfb

References

urw-fonts.noarch website

Summary

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