How To Install bpg-glaho-fonts on CentOS 8

bpg-glaho-fonts is Glaho family of BPG Georgian fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bpg-glaho-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is bpg-glaho-fonts

BPG Fonts are a set of GPL licensed Georgian Unicode fonts. This package contains the Glaho font family.

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

Install bpg-glaho-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-glaho-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bpg-glaho-fonts

Install bpg-glaho-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-glaho-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bpg-glaho-fonts

How To Uninstall bpg-glaho-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bpg-glaho-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bpg-glaho-fonts

bpg-glaho-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-bpg.conf-glaho.conf
/usr/share/appdata/bpg-glaho.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/64-bpg.conf-glaho.conf
/usr/share/fonts/bpg
/usr/share/fonts/bpg/BPG_Glaho_GPL&GNU.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bpg/BPG_Glaho_GPL&GNU_2011.ttf

References

Summary

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