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

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlgothic-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. vlgothic-fonts.noarch is Japanese TrueType font

Introduction

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

What is vlgothic-fonts.noarch

VLGothic provides Japanese TrueType fonts from the Vine Linux project. Most of the glyphs are taken from the M+ and Sazanami Gothic fonts, but some have also been improved by the project. This package provides the monospace VLGothic font.

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

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

sudo yum -y install vlgothic-fonts.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove vlgothic-fonts.noarch

vlgothic-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-1-vlgothic-gothic.conf
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/LICENSE.en
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/LICENSE_E.mplus
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/LICENSE_J.mplus
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/README
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/README.sazanami
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/README_E.mplus
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts-20130607/README_J.mplus
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-1-vlgothic-gothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/vlgothic
/usr/share/fonts/vlgothic/VL-Gothic-Regular.ttf

References

Summary

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