How To Install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 is X.Org X11 font utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64`

X.Org X11 font utilities required for font installation, conversion, and generation.

We can use yum to install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64.

Install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 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 xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64

xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/bdftopcf
/usr/bin/bdftruncate
/usr/bin/fonttosfnt
/usr/bin/mkfontdir
/usr/bin/mkfontscale
/usr/bin/ucs2any
/usr/bin/xorg-x11-fonts-update-dirs
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/fontutil.pc
/usr/share/X11/fonts
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-10
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-11
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-13
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-14
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-15
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-16
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-2
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-3
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-4
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-5
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-6
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-7
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-8
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-9
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-JISX0201.1976-0
/usr/share/X11/fonts/util/map-KOI8-R
/usr/share/aclocal/fontutil.m4
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/COPYING-bdftopcf
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/COPYING-font-util
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/COPYING-fonttosfnt
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/COPYING-mkfontdir
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/COPYING-mkfontscale
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/README-bdftopcf
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/README-font-util
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/README-mkfontdir
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5/README-mkfontscale
/usr/share/man/man1/bdftopcf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bdftruncate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fonttosfnt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkfontdir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkfontscale.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ucs2any.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xorg-x11-fonts-update-dirs.1.gz

References

xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.