How To Install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts on CentOS 8

artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts is Cure font in Artwiz family

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts

Artwiz is a family of very small futuristic fonts, with varying styles of typefaces designed at a single pixel size. The minimal nature of the fonts makes them popular with users of lightweight window managers. These fonts have been updated by Alec Zapka to be compatible with modern software and support an extended character set. This package contains the Cure font in three encodings, English, German, and Swedish.

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

Install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-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 artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts

Install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-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 artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts

How To Uninstall artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts

artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-artwiz-aleczapka-cure.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-artwiz-aleczapka-cure.conf
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka/cure.de.pcf
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka/cure.pcf
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka/cure.se.pcf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.