How To Install abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8

abattis-cantarell-fonts is Cantarell, a Humanist sans-serif font family

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is abattis-cantarell-fonts

Cantarell is a set of fonts designed by Dave Crossland. It is a sans-serif humanist typeface family.

We can use yum or dnf to install abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abattis-cantarell-fonts.

Install abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abattis-cantarell-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abattis-cantarell-fonts

Install abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abattis-cantarell-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abattis-cantarell-fonts

How To Uninstall abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abattis-cantarell-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abattis-cantarell-fonts

abattis-cantarell-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/31-cantarell.conf
/usr/share/appdata/abattis-cantarell.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/abattis-cantarell-fonts
/usr/share/doc/abattis-cantarell-fonts/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/abattis-cantarell-fonts/README
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/31-cantarell.conf
/usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell
/usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell/Cantarell-Bold.otf
/usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell/Cantarell-BoldOblique.otf
/usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell/Cantarell-Oblique.otf
/usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell/Cantarell-Regular.otf
/usr/share/licenses/abattis-cantarell-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/abattis-cantarell-fonts/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abattis-cantarell-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.