How To Install amiri-quran-fonts on CentOS 8

amiri-quran-fonts is Quran type of Amiri fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-quran-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is amiri-quran-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. This package contains Quran type of Amiri fonts.

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

Install amiri-quran-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-quran-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install amiri-quran-fonts

Install amiri-quran-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-quran-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amiri-quran-fonts

How To Uninstall amiri-quran-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the amiri-quran-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove amiri-quran-fonts

amiri-quran-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-amiri-quran.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/67-amiri-quran.conf
/usr/share/fonts/amiri
/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-quran-colored.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-quran.ttf

References

Summary

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