How To Install bpg-excelsior-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpg-excelsior-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is bpg-excelsior-fonts
BPG Fonts are a set of GPL licensed Georgian Unicode fonts. This package contains the Excelsior font family.
We can use yum or dnf to install bpg-excelsior-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bpg-excelsior-fonts.
Install bpg-excelsior-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 bpg-excelsior-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bpg-excelsior-fonts
Install bpg-excelsior-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 bpg-excelsior-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bpg-excelsior-fonts
How To Uninstall bpg-excelsior-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bpg-excelsior-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bpg-excelsior-fonts
bpg-excelsior-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-bpg.conf-excelsior.conf
/usr/share/appdata/bpg-excelsior.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/64-bpg.conf-excelsior.conf
/usr/share/fonts/bpg
/usr/share/fonts/bpg/BPG_Excelsior_GPL&GNU.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpg-excelsior-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.