How To Install amiri-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is amiri-fonts
Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text. Amiri is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named.
We can use yum or dnf to install amiri-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amiri-fonts.
Install amiri-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 amiri-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amiri-fonts
Install amiri-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 amiri-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install amiri-fonts
How To Uninstall amiri-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the amiri-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amiri-fonts
amiri-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-amiri.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/67-amiri.conf
/usr/share/fonts/amiri
/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-boldslanted.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-slanted.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.