How To Install bitmap-fangsongti-fonts on CentOS 8

bitmap-fangsongti-fonts is Selected CJK bitmap fonts for Anaconda

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bitmap-fangsongti-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is bitmap-fangsongti-fonts

bitmap-fonts-cjk package contains bitmap fonts used by Anaconda. They are selected from the xorg packages, and the font encoding are converted from native encoding to ISO10646. They are only intended to be used in Anaconda.

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

Install bitmap-fangsongti-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 bitmap-fangsongti-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bitmap-fangsongti-fonts

Install bitmap-fangsongti-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 bitmap-fangsongti-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bitmap-fangsongti-fonts

How To Uninstall bitmap-fangsongti-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bitmap-fangsongti-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bitmap-fangsongti-fonts

bitmap-fangsongti-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-bitmap-fangsongti.conf
/usr/share/doc/bitmap-fangsongti-fonts
/usr/share/doc/bitmap-fangsongti-fonts/LICENSE
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-bitmap-fangsongti.conf
/usr/share/fonts/bitmap
/usr/share/fonts/bitmap/fangsongti16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/bitmap/fangsongti24.pcf.gz

References

Summary

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