How To Install wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch is WenQuanYi Unibit Bitmap Font

Introduction

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

What is wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch

The Wen Quan Yi Unibit is designed as a dual-width (16x16,16x8) bitmap font to provide the most complete international symbol coverage, serving as the system-wide fall-back font. This font has covered over 46000 Unicode code points in BMP. It is intended to supersede the outdated GNU Unifont. This font was created by merging the latest update of GNU Unifont [GPL] (by Roman Czyborra and David Starner et al., the font was last updated in 2004), WenQuanYi Bitmap Song [GPL] 0.8.1 (by Qianqian Fang and WenQuanYi contributors) and Fixed-16x8 [public domain] bitmap fonts from X11 core fonts. The entire CJK Unified Ideographics (U4E00-U9FA5) and CJK Unified Ideographics Extension A(U3400-U4DB5) blocks were replaced by high-quality glyphs from China National Standard GB19966-2005 (public domain). Near a thousand of non-CJK characters were improved by WenQuanYi contributors via their collaborative font editing website at http

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

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

sudo yum -y install wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch

How To Uninstall wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch

wqy-unibit-fonts.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts-1.1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts-1.1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts-1.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts-1.1.0/README
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-unibit
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-unibit/wqy-unibit.pcf

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Summary

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